Advice-for-writers Quote by John Searles Download Open image ““Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.”” — John Searles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advice-for-writers Vocabulary Writing
“When a vacuum forms, someting has to come along to fill it. Because that's what everybody does.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’d rather make love to a robot than a politician, because it’d be more personable. Anyway, talking vacuum cleaners with flesh and suits freak… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The old vacuum cleaner keeps dying on her over and over until at last the cleaning woman scares it by yelling: "Motherfucker!” — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Has something happened to upset you today?” “Yeah, I had an argument with a vacuum cleaner hose, it wanted me to it a blowjob,… — Gillibran Brown Copy Share Image
“So does that mean you're neat and tidy, since you're a woman ?" I scrunched up my face. "Are you kidding ? I used… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I'm guessing that before getting to my house today, Shoshanna had thought the Hoover Dam was some kind of vacuum cleaner attachment.” — Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Copy Share Image
“He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I’m thinking I don’t know what I’d possibly write about in a journal,” I told him, even though I knew what he intended. But… — John Searles Copy Share Image
I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be. — John Searles Copy Share Image
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me. — John Searles Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“What I will say is this: each of us is born into this life with a light inside of us. Some, like yours, burn… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“You know what can make a person possessed, Sylvie? It's not Satan or Lucifer or any of that nonsense. Do you know what it… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“Most people, they are afraid to believe in ghosts. Me, i'm afraid not to believe. Because, well, what then? If there really is nothing… — John Searles Copy Share Image
I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night. — John Searles Copy Share Image
“each of us is born into this life with a light inside of us. Some, like yours, burn brighter than others. You don’t see… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“The three rules to writing a novel; 1) Write 2) Write more 3) Keep writing” — SciFurz Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour,… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
“Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with.” — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear &… — Shomprakash Sinha Roy Copy Share Image
“My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash. another from the world of tweets” — Robin Glasser Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter: genuine clarity genuine feeling the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
