"When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair."

-- Robert Stone

#Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Jun 23, 2011
“Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.”
“Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.”
“You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.”
“A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.”
“The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad.”
“It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.”

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