Crafts Quote by Robert Stone Download Open image “When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.” — Robert Stone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Cutting Hair Littles Moving Rewriting Writing
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
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 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
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
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
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing. — Emma Healey 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
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to him .… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.” — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought, half hypnotized… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises. She imagined… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
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