Sharon Crawford > Sharon's Quotes

“Half my life is an act of revision.”
― John Irving

“All of us who write need a good editor.
- Sharon Langevin Crawford”
― Sharon Langevin Crawford, Fire Underneath the Ice

“All of us who write need a good editor.”
― Sharon Langevin Crawford, Fire Underneath the Ice

“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
― Charles Péguy, Basic Verities, Prose, and Poetry

“If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson