Editing Quote by Allison Joseph Download Open image “Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.” — Allison Joseph ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editing Hard Writing
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
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Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer. — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I think that the people who really accomplish things in this world have to have a little bit of crazy in them. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement,… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
