Editing Fiction Quotes & Sayings

What values do achievement, degrees, and diplomas have if you don't have wisdom and love? — Debasish Mridha

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip. — Craig Brown

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. — Isabel Allende

Kaladin frowned. "Wait. Are you wearing cologne? In prison?"
"Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated."
"Storms, you're spoiled," Kaladin said, smiling.
"I'm refined, you insolent farmer," Adolin said. Then he grinned. "Besides, I'll have you know that I had to use cold water for my baths while here."
"Poor boy. — Brandon Sanderson

I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer. — Michele Bachmann

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing ... — Barbara Degenevieve

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on. — Elizabeth George

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. — Kevin J. Anderson

You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant. — David Rockwell

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath. — Gale Anne Hurd

Well, I would tell Danny. I'd probably edit for Josh. That is if there was
anything worth editing.
"Joshua Roberts, you had better get your butt on the move!" Danny
hollered as he walked down the stairs.
I was nervously waiting for them to leave as I pretended to watch TV in
the front room.
"We're going to be late."
"So the hair crisis is under control I see."
"A stray hair will never win between a bottle of gel and a gay man," he
declared with a smile. "Joshua!"
"I'm coming. I'm coming."
I heard his sandals click on the stairs and I waited to see if the mental
image matched the real one. To my non surprise it did. — Kaitlin Scott

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love. — Stephanie Roberts

To free the voice is to free the person. — Kristin Linklater

Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell. — George Carlin

Novels hadn't interested her for a long time now: not for a moment could she tear her mind away from her own life and concentrate on somebody else. — Lydia Chukovskaya

Length is weight in fiction, pretty much. — Joan Silber

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That's why I write long form fiction - I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. I'm a problem-solver - I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again. — Porochista Khakpour

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person. — Elle Fanning

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. — Leos Carax

Is there love without an action? No! Love is an active word. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen.
When you are looked at, your eyes can be closed. You suck energy, you steal the spotlight. When you are seen, your eyes must be open, and you are seeing and recognizing your witness. You accept energy and you generate energy. You create light.
One is exhibitionism, the other is connection.
Not everybody wants to be looked at.
Everybody wants to be seen. — Amanda Palmer