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
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  2. We're not mad. We're inhabited - Sue Moorcroft
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  4. A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. - Stephen King
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More Quotes By Pearl S. Buck
  1. Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
  2. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
  3. Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung
  4. To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
  5. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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