"I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly."

-- Megan McCafferty

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.”
“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

Source : Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.
“...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.”
“My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.”
“Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.”

Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
“There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.”

Source : Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2008). “The Eyes of the Want”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
“When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.”

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