Brevity Quote by Louise Brooks Download Open image “Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.” — Louise Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Elimination Inspiration Writing
Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication. — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
“Writing is 10% inspiration,90% perspiration and 50% procrastination.” — Lucky Stevens Copy Share Image
“It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
“People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.” — Bruce Van Horn Copy Share Image
People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent… — Caprice Crane Copy Share Image
With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the… — Louise Brooks Copy Share
“Over the years I suffered poverty and rejection and came to believe that my mother had formed me for a freedom that was unattainable, a delusion. Then ... I was ... confined to this small apartment in this alien city of Rochester. ... Looking about, I saw millions of old people in my situation, wailing like lost puppies because they… — Louise Brooks Copy Share
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
“I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything -- spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking.… — Louise Brooks Copy Share
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into… — Walter Pater Copy Share
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
