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James Patterson has 538 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity.…
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Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.
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I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
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I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately,…
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Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.
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Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't…
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Assume nothing, question everything.
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Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's…
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He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a…
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Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
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Home is wherever we all are together.
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Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome…
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Popular Rewriting quotes from across the collection:
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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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