People Quote by Peter Orner Download Open image “I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.” — Peter Orner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and… — Matt Ridley 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 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
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more. — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“The lake is always east. East is always the lake. Anywhere else he's ever been he never knows where he is.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by being so… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
People have to follow their own strangeness. The minute they start making their own vision of the world flattened out so everyone can read… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Considering the multitude of things that happen in any one person’s life, it seems fairly unlikely that those little boys remembered the incident for… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings?… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
We don't want emotion handed to us - that's not emotion. You have to build and come from the reader's soul. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
