Going Quotes
31598 Going quotes by 12355 unique authors
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As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes…
— Flannery O'Connor
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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
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite…
— John Steinbeck
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Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen…
— Lewis Thomas
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair,…
— Tennessee Williams
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I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,…
— Flannery O'Connor
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On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's…
— Unknown Author
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I…
— Aldous Huxley
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The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
— Tony Hillerman
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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
— S E Hinton
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back…
— Truman Capote
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and…
— Joan Didion
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When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence…
— Toni Morrison
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If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!
— Zig Ziglar
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It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting…
— Richard L. Evans
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When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
— Regina Brett
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I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.
— Ron Atkinson
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We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.
— David Beckham
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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
— Alex Ferguson
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I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.
— Ron Atkinson
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If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.
— Graeme Souness
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All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of…
— Lawrence Taylor
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If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
— Bobby Moore
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Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for…
— Ben Shahn
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