"If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful."

-- William Zinsser

#Needs Quotes #Painful Quotes

“We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.”
“A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.”
“Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.”
“The Chargers made a statement today.”
“I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.”
“Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.”
“All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.”

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