"My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Dinty W. Moore

#Advice Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.”
“How much are you worth? I have no idea. How much do you want? Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million? Oh, my, yes. Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford? The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!”
“Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?”
“From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,â€ Joe said quietly. â€œThey were all you, to me. All of them were you.”
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. [â€¦]. I'm two, and both keep their distance â€” Siamese twins that aren't attached.”
“The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.”
“What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 22, 2012
“I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.”

Source : Interview with Chris Carle, au.ign.com. September 8, 2005.

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