"The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'"

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Christopher Buckley

#Grateful Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“Nothing is too much trouble for Love.”
“I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.”
“There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.”
“It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.”
“Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.”

Source : Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto (1974). “Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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