Word Count Quotes
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Word Count Quotes & Sayings
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Writing is about space. It's about what's not said. About showing rather than telling. About making every word count.
— Jeff Goins
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others
— Henri Nouwen
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Write until you have nothing left to say and then stop writing. Focus on content and quality rather than word count.
— Gudjon Bergmann
I have discovered the magic trick to increasing my daily word count and productivity. It's called a deadline.
— A.D. Starrling
And in thy voice I catch the language of my former heart, and read my former pleasures in the shooting lights of thy wild eyes.
— William Wordsworth
A love of writing is far greater than any word count.
— Molly Looby
I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
— Cate Blanchett
Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Prayer doesn't require a special skill, qualification or word count .
— Euginia Herlihy
I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.
— Adrian McKinty
Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.
— Dr. Seuss
The word love doesn't count when the word ya comes right after it.
— Tommy Greenwald
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
— Loretta Lynn
And I know fuck isn't a word that Mormons say, but I don't say this word I only think it, so it doesn't really count.
— The Hippie
Don't leave your life a blank page. Make each word count and leave behind something worth reading.
— Mae East
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
— Nikki Grimes
My disability was my justification! It was my excuse for failing to engage with the world.
— The Arbinger Institute
When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.
— Jonathan Demme
That said, some of my best scenes and most dramatic scenes have actually been the ones I've combined to get my word count down.
— Rachel Aaron
Pointing to an imminent dawn he urged him: Come on! Pursue it among the ripples of sleep, where dreams go hiding, and grab it
— Luca Ferrarini
Didn't anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don't stop talking, my tongue will explode?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon