"After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity."

-- Kent Haruf

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Long Quotes

“I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century. When the euphoria surrounding her departure subsides you will find that in a year or two's time there will not be a Tory who admits ever supporting her. People in the street will say, thank God she's gone”
“He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.”
“Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.”

Source : Maurice Druon (1956). “The Accursed Kings: The strangled queen”
“In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!”
“Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.”
“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”

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