Days Quote by Jimmy Webb Download Open image “Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.” — Jimmy Webb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Days Did Early Little Littles Particularly Rewriting Very
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I… — Louis Sachar 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 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
I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always,… — Harry Turtledove 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 write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites. — Paula Pell Copy Share Image
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the last fifty… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs. — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work. — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share
“A critic can call any poem 'doggerel.' That is no more than a slur. 'Doggerel' or 'maudlin' or 'sappy' or 'sentimental' is in the ear of the listener. By the by, 'sentimental' is okay as it is defined as 'marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism.' It is 'sentimentality' that is to be avoided, like the fiddleback spider,… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share
I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working with Glen… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
I usually know what kind of song I'm after. I know what I'm trying to do when I start. I don't always get there.… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate that when Frank Sinatra was in concert, he would say, 'Here's a song by a wonderful young songwriter, Jimmy Webb,' and… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
When I wake up on a Monday morning, it's nice knowing for the next 10-12 days that I don't have to do much of… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Everybody has bad days, but how you respond to it is a testament to whether you are a winner or a loser. — Aaron Gordon Copy Share Image
Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of old-time hymns and Scots-Irish dirges, though I wouldn't necessarily consider myself an expert on the type of music that was performed in those days. — Ryan Bingham Copy Share
We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites of whatever… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the… — James Clapper Copy Share Image
Singaporeans generally feel more secure these days. One of our tasks is to remind them that this, a result of a continuing act of… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
