Aborted Writing Quotes

#1. A business is an army;
you are the general,
and your subordinates are your troops.
Victory is achieving your goals.
Great victory is surpassing your goals.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

Ivan Turgenev

#3. A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Archibald MacLeish

#4. All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

William Wordsworth

#5. You want to get your book to press. You rush it through. Revision number twenty - done. Do you really need twenty more? Yes. A half-baked book is a half-birthed child. It aborts, is put on life support; reviewers line the hall to pull the plug.

Chila Woychik

#6. My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room.

Henry Cho

#7. Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go.

Behdad Sami

#8. It's very possible that fear of being where you wish to be is exactly why you're not there yet.

Charles F. Glassman

#9. Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh ... And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

Dan Brown

#10. Wait," Wes says. "Are you to imply that our dear Chameleon is once again having premonitions by way of pottery?"
"I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't call me reptilian names," I say.
"Would you prefer it if I called you a freak?

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#11. what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them." He

Jon Ronson

#12. Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her.

Chloe Thurlow

#13. I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Loudon Wainwright III

#14. Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

Tom Skerritt

#15. Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

Tea Leoni