Tighter Than A Phrases Quotes & Sayings

I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary. — Fanny Fern

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices. — Walter Raleigh

My feet aren't seeds so I see no reason to plant them. — Wesley Eisold

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story. — Isabel Allende

Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things ... and you are the first order of your business. — Elaine Marolakos Edelson

Sometimes it's the ones closest to us who can destroy us the most. Sometimes it's friends ... family. It's not always a romantic relationship that can leave us with a broken heart.
-Gage — Shanora Williams

They are the efforts of someone who, overarced by stars that are human handiwork, and who, shelterless in this till now undreamt of sense and thus most uncannily in the open, goes with his very being into language, reality-wounded and reality-seeking. — Paul Celan