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Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Edit your author as you would be edited. -- Barbara Sjoholm
Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge. -- James Scott Bell
Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Market it with the persistence of a drug peddler. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanityedit one more time! -- C.K. Webb
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be... -- Margaret Atwood
Every edit is a lie. -- Jean-Luc Godard
I don't edit information, I follow it. -- David Icke
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself. -- Marianne Faithfull
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. -- Jodi Picoult
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. -- Henry David Thoreau
If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs. -- David Icke
Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo. -- David Chang
I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it. -- Kacey Musgraves
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter. -- Stephen Colbert
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. -- Stephen Sondheim
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative. -- Glen Hansard
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? -- Jon Meacham
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. -- Mark Haddon
No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling. -- Mike Mills
I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam. -- Kate Moss
Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease. -- Evgeny Morozov
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry. -- Paul Rand
You have to do a show, an interview, you've got to go straight back on the road to another location, make a track and edit things like footage etc. It's non stop. I really respect the hustle and work rate of Chipmunk, as well as N-Dubz and Tinchy Stryder. -- Tinie Tempah
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do. -- Annie Leibovitz
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing. -- Karen Thompson Walker
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. -- Eddie Vedder
In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years. -- Joel Osteen
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story. -- Al Yankovic
The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper. -- Yoko Ono
Write drunk; edit sober. -- Ernest Hemingway
Control, edit and distill. -- Van Day Truex
We must never edit God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
You can't edit a blank page -- Nora Roberts
You should edit before and after editing. -- Dwayne Fry
To write is human, to edit is divine. -- Stephen King
Shoot from the gut, edit with the brain -- Anders Petersen
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. -- Erica Jong
Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. -- Peter Jackson
We stitch together our days and edit out our nights. -- Julia Leigh
And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. -- Arthur Plotnik
I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album. -- Girl Talk
I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit. -- Michael Mann
Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team. -- Keith Rabois
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. -- C. J. Cherryh
Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken. -- Myra McEntire
I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light. -- Ian Hart
If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it? -- S. Kelley Harrell
[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted. -- Nat Hentoff
Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku. -- Frank Black
I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me. -- Jeanne Voelker
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit. -- Madeleine Stowe
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. -- Nora Roberts
For most people, I edit. Most people are definitely getting along on the Cliffs Notes. -- Suzanne Finnamore
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. -- H. G. Wells
If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet. -- Chloe Sevigny
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work. -- Mark Twain
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. -- Thomas Perry
Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images. -- Leos Carax
We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves. -- Russell Smith
The real battle is in choosing in the edit room. It's in how you contextualize information. -- Brian McGinn
Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works -- Munia Khan
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless -- Zaha Hadid
Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. -- Allan Gurganus
I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers. -- Tommy Lee
There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit, and those who can't. -- Jarod Kintz
One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have. -- Kyle Dunnigan
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. -- Andy Goldsworthy
In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different. -- Rob Brown
You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'. -- Jay Maisel
Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. -- Kurt Loder
I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right. -- Cheryl Strayed
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write. -- Ira Glass
The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways. -- David Hockney
When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written. -- Donald Miller
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. -- Nia Vardalos
I'm always ready for TV. I don't have to edit my jokes - when you work clean, you can work anywhere. -- Gabriel Iglesias
If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story. -- Edwin D. Ferretti III
I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit. -- Jakob Dylan
Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. -- J. D. Salinger
I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical. -- Frank Gehry
I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages. -- Garrett Hedlund
I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in. -- Lynn Shelton
Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here. -- Ben Nicholson
I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form. -- Susanne Bier
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. -- Lisa Scottoline
You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit. -- Logan Lerman
I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction. -- Grant Morrison
If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times. -- Betsy Sholl
We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language. -- Ashley Greene
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit. -- Tony Scott
My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking. -- Casey Neistat
I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly. -- Greg Behrendt
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it. -- Anita Shreve
Even other movies I wasn't involved with, I'd watch them edit 'cause I really enjoy watching them go through their process. It's a very economical, educational process. -- George Clooney
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing. -- Josh Radnor
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. -- Franz Kafka
I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot. -- Todd Hido
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature"¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God. -- H. L. Mencken
Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations. -- Chris Hegedus
I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with. -- Glen Hansard
I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music. -- Stan Getz
I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year. -- Shane McCrae
I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate. -- Andy Dick
I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean. -- Robert Gottlieb
With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file. -- DJ Spooky
I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there. -- Lydia Davis
Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else. -- Idris Elba
I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue. -- Drew Barrymore
Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great -- Michel Hazanavicius
My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings. -- Leos Carax
The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life. -- Michel Gondry
It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while. -- Danielle Dutton
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog. -- Fran Lebowitz
When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot. -- Ralph Fiennes

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