Basements Quote by Peter Murphy Download Open image “Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.” — Peter Murphy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basements Crafts Rewriting Toothbrushes Writing
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
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
The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better to re-write than overwriting. Avoiding the repetition is the best. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting,… — Neil Simon 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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“His voice evoked the ghosts of those who had paid that price and died horribly. They hovered in the shadows muttering vengeance, but he… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real. — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“Shadows gathered as they had done for eons, beneath the moon and the twinkling of a million stars, like a gathering of forgotten deities.” — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“Another brave new world beckoned, but Dublin was dubious – too often hope had been trampled down by foreign armies or strangled in dark… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?” — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“Words that had looked so strong on the page, which ran through his mind like music, now shriveled in the air around him.” — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“My mother always said that I would come to a bad end but I never thought she meant this - writing allegory in literal… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“They were still in that forgiving time when even their flaws were quaint.” — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“We have had a spot of bother. I am afraid that I shot the Bard in the bottom. Good thing that I was over… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: `Basement?' — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it.… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy. — Sharon Cameron Copy Share Image
My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater… — Vickie Winans Copy Share Image
We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
