Because Quote by Jayne Anne Phillips Download Open image “I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.” — Jayne Anne Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Because Carefully Each Much Paragraph Put Rewriting Together Very
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 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
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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
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Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
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