Quotation Explorer - 'Interrupt'

I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say... *shakes head* Nah, I just can't do it. Although when I come across a brilliant line, I do think, Can't touch this. And when I'm worried I'm overwriting a scene, I think, Hammer, don't hurt 'em. - Brent Weeks
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. - John Locke
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese Proverb
To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again. - Mary Oliver
We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more. - Stefan Zweig
You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls. - Margaret Mitchell
Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting. - Winston S. Churchill
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. - Rodney Dangerfield
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoléon Bonaparte
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. - Ernest Hemingway
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