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Eric Jerome Dickey has 63 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
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Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your…
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If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do..
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We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites
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As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called…
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Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights…
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For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing…
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I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing…
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When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about…
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nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!
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changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!
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Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
— Larry L. King
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke…
— Ted Solotaroff
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Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
— Peter Murphy
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Good writing is rewriting.
— Truman Capote
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
— Roald Dahl
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Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft…
— Richard North Patterson
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
— John Updike
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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…
— Joan Didion
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