Away Quotes

18621 Away quotes by 8383 unique authors

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the… — Helen Dunmore
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well… — Ray Bradbury
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can… — Flannery O'Connor
As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who… — Katherine Paterson
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the… — William Zinsser
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you. — Zadie Smith
To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and… — John Hersey
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish… — Neil Gaiman
Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away. — Billy Graham
Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls. — Unknown Author
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of… — Samuel Johnson
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all… — Frederick H. Evans
Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic.… — Daniel Finkelstein
Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success. — Chase Jarvis
That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass. — Unknown Author
There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game. — Glenn Hoddle
Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here. — John Motson
The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now… — Unknown Author
Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that. — Ray Stubbs
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a… — Thomas Paine

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