Next Quote by Francine Pascal Download Open image “I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.” — Francine Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Next Pages Pile Put Typewriter Typewriters
You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work. — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
“She had started driving past his apartment to see whether or not his car was out front. She had looked up his phone number, and twice she had called his apartment from the pay phone in school, knowing he wouldn’t be at home, just so she could hear how sexy his voice sounded on his answering machine. Was this what… — Francine Pascal Copy Share
I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“How inappropriate,’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she’s going to… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“Honestly,’ she said when they were out of Bruce’s earshot, ‘he’s as bad in the kitchen as you are. What do you people do… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you -… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid’s life had been… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“Losers with no imagination say that if you start a new school, there has to be a first day. How come they haven't figure… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“The documents were in English—sort of—but the language was so convoluted that it was beginning to give her a headache. It made for even… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“As the crow flies. That’s how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she’d get home? That wasn’t the point. It didn’t mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning,… — Francine Pascal Copy Share
“She’ll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a… — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't… — Eddie Bravo Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
