Edits Quote by Allan Gurganus Download Open image “Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.” — Allan Gurganus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Edits Fall Kind Shapes Writing
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you. — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing. — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes. — Jane Green Copy Share Image
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing,… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state,… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them. — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something! — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“Lord-Express have mercy on our stop-making, stuttering local. Place me expressly beyond these stares, past such terrible embarrassment. I say I do not feel… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and fifty million… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“Imagine how titanic an echo chamber this great city would seem without the noise of eve none of mine. A huge bronze bell deprived… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page. — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“We'd die here, old together, safe with each other's secrets. We were each other's juvenilia” — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“Fifteen, that’s the age when the only world event that counts is whatever mood you’re in that day.” — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend everyone edit… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.'… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
