"Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms of writing but not for dialogue. Another mistake is speechifying. Three sentences at a time is tops, yet many beginners write speeches that go on and on."

-- Sol Stein

#Mistake Quotes #Writing Quotes #Beginners Quotes

“I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.”
“Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“If we only knew the real value of a day.”
“According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as a rite." She cites Moses Mendelssohn who wrote "Judaism is not a religion but a Law religionized."”
“In order to have real prayer and action to change things, we must have conviction as to the need of prayer and action. In order to have conviction as to the need of prayer and action, we must have knowledge.”
“In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.”
“People ask me, "How's Teen Wolf?," and I tell them it's literally the best job I've ever had.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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