"Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully."

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Source : Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

Ted Solotaroff

#Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Mind Quotes

“democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.”
“A friend is someone you can call at any hour to laugh or cry or complain.”
“Itâ€™s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz thatâ€™s what gets lost in all that Noise.”
“Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.”
“Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2012.
“I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."”
“Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.”
“My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.”

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