"If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing."

-- William Safire

#Reading Quotes #Editing Quotes #Repetition Quotes

“As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.”
“It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.”
“The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.”
“The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.”

Source : Ben Vereen: Biography, www.imdb.com.
“Theres a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you dont ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of exertion while running, you couldnt do that. Blinking when youre shooting a gun, you know. Things that you take for granted every day that had to be eliminated, so it was always interesting.”
“So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.”
“He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.”
“Find Dad Bust Holy Water Scam Save the World Buy Groceries Do Laundry”

Source : Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.274, Pan Macmillan

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