“I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.” IfsThinkingWritingBookDifferentWholeAgeWonderCuttingComputerParagraphRevisingDeleting Author:Megan McCafferty
“To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.” IfsKnowsBookSelfWholeFoundKnow HowAwarenessOneselfSentencesSupremeVolumeParagraph Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship
“You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.” WritingTryingWholeEyeHurtPiecesSentencesReleaseSectionsPerfectionismParagraphNew Eyes Author:Anne Lamott