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Sarah Kay has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's…
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If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.
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Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in…
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You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space…
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My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.
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Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on…
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It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.
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It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.
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Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth…
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If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to…
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Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night
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Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards…
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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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