Adrian Mole Pandora Quotes & Sayings

Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game. — William Zinsser

Going over to their prisoner, Vishous performed a visual assessment on Xcor. When they'd brought the bastard in here, V had strapped him onto the wooden slab table face-up and spread-eagled, locking stainless-steel cuffs on those wrists and ankles and around that thick neck - and what do you know, the guy was right where he'd left him. Color was passable. Eyes were closed. Head wound at the rear of the skull was no longer leaking, having healed already. — J.R. Ward

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. — Twyla Tharp

And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him! — Abbi Glines

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart. — Marc Jacobs

Hidden evils are most dreaded. — Martial

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? — Henry Flynt

That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people. — Jerome K. Jerome

I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things. — Robert Urich

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. — Lisa Mantchev

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. — Isabel Allende

There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living — Aga Khan III