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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.


Jodi Picoult

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You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
JODI PICOULT You can fix anything but a blank page.
NORA ROBERTS You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
NORA ROBERTS I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creat...
ANN VOSKAMP I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you...
TERRENCE MALICK Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty s...
JULIA CAMERON For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words y...
LINCOLN CHILD give an academic a blank page and they will ask you of curriculum, give a creative a blank page and ...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.
BRAD PAISLEY You must not come lightly to the blank page.
STEPHEN KING Big time, ... I’m always ready for TV. I don’t have to edit my jokes — when you work clean, you c...
GABRIEL IGLESIAS When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is ...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't ...
JOHN C. PARKIN Life is like writing without an eraser. But the good thing is, you can always write "I'm sorry," and...
JOHN B. BEJO As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
BARRY JENKINS Every cell in our body, whether it's a bacterial cell or a human cell, has a genome. You can ext...
GEORGE M. CHURCH There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, bu...
JONATHAN GALASSI A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Nothing listens as well as a blank page.
SHAUN HICK Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen...
LAINI TAYLOR Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that dia...
DOUGLAS PAGELS For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which do...
DAN CHAON Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
SHERMAN ALEXIE To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the page...
NICK HARKAWAY Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you...
C.K. WEBB You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page...
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YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
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HARRY YOU Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained ...
JOHN MAEDA Tomorrow is the blank page. Every morning is the new day to pick up & start a fresh.The greatest pow...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power ...
THEA HARRISON How can you judge what you did yesterday for today is a new day, a new page, a new beginning?
REID CHILDS You've got one page on the left of instructions, and one page on the right which is the screen that ...
KRIS ABEL The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it li...
MARC FORSTER They've got an edit provision on there for the sake of editing when things are not accurate. I presu...
ERICH MISCHE I live for the blank page.
LISA UNGER Every edit is a lie.
JEAN-LUC GODARD In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still f...
DAN BROWN When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard.
BRAD PAISLEY My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wis...
SHANNON L. ALDER If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madnes...
DAVE MATTHES Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to ...
CHARLES FRAZIER Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
LANGSTON HUGHES I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and p...
DEAN KOONTZ I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool...
NATALIE GOLDBERG I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
IRVINE WELSH You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the...
STEPHEN KING The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. ...
WHIT STILLMAN Just edit, improve it and through that process, thousands of people reading these pages and editing ...
JACK HERRICK Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the pag...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK To write is human, to edit is divine.
STEPHEN KING I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to sta...
FLAVOR FLAV I think the secret is, no matter how good you are Saturday night, on Monday morning you start with a...
ANDREW MILLER When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
ELIAS CANETTI Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chap...
CASSANDRA CLARE You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the ...
ANDREW BENINTENDI The best boxers don't always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please...
KATIE TAYLOR We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't ge...
CALVIN TRILLIN Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that alw...
BETSY BEERS when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?
my answer : photo? it's not a simple...
NABIL TOUSSI Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimite...
JULIA CAMERON We can not endorse a working document, a draft that has not been discussed nor had a final edit.
RUBEN AGUILAR In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, y...
RONALD REAGAN Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself ...
RONALD REAGAN Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself yo...
RONALD REAGAN When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad al...
PAT SUMMITT A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
DREW BARRYMORE Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to ...
JONAH LEHRER I didn't reinvent clothing; I reinvented the edit.
JONATHAN ANDERSON On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. ...
BIL KEANE You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to...
ARTHUR POLOTNIK I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ...
NORA EPHRON Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.
ASHWIN SANGHI By the way, you wouldn't edit this paper, would you? I've sold it, and I'm looking for an editor. An...
HUGH JOHNSON I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
IAN HART It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit ...
JEFF NICHOLS You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir...
DARIN STRAUSS My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn&#...
RICK PERLSTEIN Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, ...
MARIE LU Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to...
HILARY MANTEL Writing is talking, except you get the chance to edit what you just said
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold ...
TOM ODELL You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a bl...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.
AMIT KALANTRI I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it, ... That might mean ...
DEAN KOONTZ It seems you can take a picture on your Vodafone and it can be on the front page of a celebrity maga...
JENNIFER SAUNDERS Life is much like writing in ink : All you can do is read over your past and look forward to a blank...
GABE SUICO I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on...
VICTORIA WOOD Just remember, every day you had a bad day, you can look at that Kelvin Pritchett locker,
MARCUS BELL Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

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JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin...
JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m...
JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it...
JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ...
JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ...
JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s...
JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t...
JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you...
JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y...
JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti...
JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee...
JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else?
JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ...
JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of (
JODI PICOULT When you read the art,
JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives.
JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w...
JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa...
JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th...
JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e...
JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth.
JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l...
JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug...
JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D...
JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c...
JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe...
JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p...
JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon...
JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al...
JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar...
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