Keep going Quote by Janet Flanner Download Open image “I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.” — Janet Flanner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Keep going
“When Pat Holt strings together a list of words not to overuse—“Actually, totally, absolutely, completely, continually, constantly, continuously, literally, really, unfortunately, ironically, incredibly, hopefully,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.” — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars.… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
“Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up,… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from my dad. Perhaps the biggest thing I've learned from my dad is how to be prepared at all… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I will try to keep going as long as I can. I'd love to play until the age of 40 - it will be… — James Anderson Copy Share Image
I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
Autonomous vehicles, because they'll be able to operate at a lower cost, will be able to pull more consumers into the Lyft network. And… — John Zimmer Copy Share Image
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image