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William Safire Quotes

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 17, 1929 - September 27, 2009

Topics

Work Great You Find Repetition Deal

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.

America Someone Problem Serious

If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

Day Pain You Stage Stay Performing

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

Doing Say More Everything Seniors

I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off.

Work Beginning Hand Get Off Like

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Experience Me Winners Up Prize Been

I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and they're humans. They have the same realm of emotions that we all have. But I'm just more drawn to the Southern character and the different types, and Southern literature is so lyrical and so wonderful.

Character People Think Interesting

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

Life Work Attitude Journey You Quit

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Stars Romantic Sky Space Moon Night

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Life Happiness My Life Run Misery

We always have to show our character on the pitch, and I show my feelings.

Character Feelings Always Show Our

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.

Colson Whitehead

Coffee Step People Writing Walking

I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.

Myself Think Filmmaker Just Really

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