Compulsion Quote by H. G. Wells Download Open image “No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.” — H. G. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compulsion Documents Edits Language Stronger Urges World Writing
Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“A curse of being a writer is the compulsion to edit. Take the sign on my walking trail, for example. It reads, 'Watered by… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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