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Stroke Quotes by Joan Didion
- Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes…
- Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you…
More Stroke Quotes
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke. — Lewis Black
- There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a… — Bill Bryson
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger… — Winston Churchill
- To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the… — Edward McKendree Bounds