"The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur."

-- Sol Stein

#Attitude Quotes #Differences Quotes #Rewriting Quotes

“The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such”
“That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.”
“But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?”
“In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them . . . . He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”
“Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.”

Source : "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.
“The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.”
“I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.”
“A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.”

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