#editing

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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.


William Safire


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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.


R. A. Salvatore


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They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.


Terry Gilliam


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While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.


Tiffany Madison


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I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.


Don Roff


#humor #revision #writing #humor

Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.


Eric T. Benoit


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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.


Barbara Taylor Bradford


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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.


Aaron Eckhart


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I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.


Nicole Eggert


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I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say... *shakes head* Nah, I just can't do it. Although when I come across a brilliant line, I do think, Can't touch this. And when I'm worried I'm overwriting a scene, I think, Hammer, don't hurt 'em.


Brent Weeks


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