"Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Kate Beaton

#Writing Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.”

Source : "Genius declared: Wilde tops the wit list" by Aidan Jones, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.
“Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.”
“I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.”
“I won't lie, I want to play in the Champions League and challenge for titles,”
“In every work of art, the artist himself is present.”
“Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.”
“Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.”
“Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.”

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