"Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Rose Tremain

#Writing Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.”
“When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going.”
“The only negative about doing stand-up is that you're on the road by yourself. When you're on the road with comics we just crack each other up every night going, "Can you believe they're paying us to do this? They're crazy."”
“One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.”
“My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.”

Source : Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.22, Michael O'Mara Books
“Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.”
“Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.”
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.”

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