Esther Freud famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.
-- Esther Freud

#Cutting #Editing
A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
-- Esther Freud

#Missing #Magic #Needs
Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.
-- Esther Freud

#Writing #Kitchen #Matter
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
-- Esther Freud

#Believe #Stories #Succeed
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
-- Esther Freud

#Needs #Breathe #Reader
A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.
-- Esther Freud

#Moving #Book #Sadness

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
You see, Hansel and Gretel donâ€™t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought youâ€™d like to know.
This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.
Bad spellers of the world untie!
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.

Esther Freud famous quotes

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