Larry L. King famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
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The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.
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Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and equal pay for equal work, and I agree with them 100%. Though on some days it is hard to figure out how a species that controls 97% of the money and all the ***** can be downtrodden.
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Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.
-- Larry L. King
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
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The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.
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