Editing Quote by Barry Hannah Download Open image “I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.” — Barry Hannah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Editing Hate I love Love Revise Stuff Write Writing
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… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I self-edit all the time when Im writing. I enjoy reading the story over and over, tweaking it as I go. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with… — Tracy Pollan Copy Share Image
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“Many robins got in the church from the trees and roosted among the congregation. They were drunk from some berries and fallen persimmons. Come… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“...it's always your first attempt every time you write, with your only companions being fear and coffee. That's the way it is a lot… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it… — Barry Hannah 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 mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
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. Everybody got to play to their strengths and was paired up in the right scenarios. It was very fortunate. It was exciting, the whole process. It makes more difficulty in editing 'cause there's more footage, but… — Matt Walsh Copy Share
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
