Delete Quotes

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. (Mark Twain)
Delete the negative; accentuate the positive. View quote
Donna Karan
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. View quote
Harper Lee
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. View quote
Arthur Quiller-Couch
I've just read that I'm dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help. View quote
Mario Balotelli
The government computer has one button: delete. View quote
Ai Weiwei
The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me - he tried to walk flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him, putting one foot behind the other. He declared Egyptians walked that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done, but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. View quote
Harper Lee
The only way to make it clear to him that he should not come here to our lists in the future, is to teach him a hard lesson, and that is done by continually re-adding cc's back to him -- because the mails talk about him -- even when his friends come our mailing lists and delete the his address from the cc list. Like this message, which adds him back in. Richard, you are a lying cheating hypocrite. (Theo de Raadt)
Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it's just not permanent enough. ...it's going to be very hard to make the world work if there's no permanence like that. That kind of radical contingency is not compatible with a system of justice or responsible self-government. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content. View quote
David Puttnam
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. But forgetting is a fraught process, one that is prone to transcription errors and personality flaws. Delete the wrong pattern, and you can end up becoming someone else. Memories exhibit dependencies, and their management is one of the highest medical art forms. View quote
Charles Stross
What would transparency be if we could delete anything we felt was embarrassing in some way? You know we don't delete. View quote
Dave Eggers
Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key. View quote
Harlan Coben
Oh my God, I never really tweet, but there's a moment every day I write one and then delete it. View quote
James Corden
What did that stupid deserting crap-bag ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend with the most perfect stupid hair do? He DIDN'T delete his crap off the desktop before he fled my life and left me all alone. That's what he did. View quote
James Patterson
As it seems to me, skill of the writer in abilities not only to write, but will delete everything that is unessential. View quote
Miho Mosulishvili
[on his newest iPhone] I'm scrolling and scrolling and I'm, like, 'I have to stop,' but I can't, so I delete the app from my phone. And download it again the next day or whatever. (Zayn Malik)
I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly. View quote
Jenny Han
What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life. View quote
Julie Anne Peters
If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day... Get to know me, and then you can talk about me! View quote
Kendall Jenner
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much. View quote
Marya Hornbacher