"After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months."

-- Margaret Haddix

#Editors Quotes #Agents Quotes #Phases Quotes

“A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.”
“The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.”
“You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.”

Source : Elliot Perlman (1999). “The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
“Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.”
“Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.”
“But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.”
“History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.”
“Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.”

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