"I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do."

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Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

Gerald Seymour

#Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes #Trying Quotes

“What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.”
“Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.”

Source : Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.52, Sentient Publications
“Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with "internationalism" though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions, fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the "rubbing out" of national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the free movement of peoples, the other of money.”
“Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.”

Source : "Man in a 'Million'" by Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.
“Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.”

Source : "Q & A With Marco Pierre White: Escoffier, Television, Packaged Soup + The French Foreign Legion". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. August 18, 2011.
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.”
“Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.”
“I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.”

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