Edits Quote by Cheryl Strayed Download Open image “I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.” — Cheryl Strayed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Edits Figures Inspirational Love Writing
I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She understands that attention is the first and final act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over” your daughter’s death by now. The people who squawk the loudest about such… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“. . . there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realization of what it meant to do it, followed by… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I never believed the boys were angry. I believed they were hurt and anger was the safest manifestation of their sorrow. It was the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend everyone edit… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.'… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
