"I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things."

--

Source : Source: therumpus.net

Leni Zumas

#Book Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Hints Quotes

“Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.”
“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
“For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.”

Source : John Armstrong (1770). “The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq”
“The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.”
“The most important job you will ever have is your commitment to a promise you made to someone.”
“Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!”
“I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped.”
“The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.”

You may also like:

Deb Olin Unferth
Short story writer
Kevin Sampsell
Writer
Lidia Yuknavitch
Author
Noy Holland
Writer
Sabina Murray
Screenwriter
Yvonne Zipter
Poet