WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:57:11 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Crichton, Michael – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Crichton, Michael -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/crichton-michael/29441/ https://wist.info/crichton-michael/29441/#respond Tue, 26 May 2015 13:29:04 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29441 The hardest part is starting to write.


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(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/crichton-michael/29441/feed/ 0 29441 Crichton, Michael -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/crichton-michael/39837/ https://wist.info/crichton-michael/39837/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:36:35 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=39837 Novels aren’t written, they’re rewritten. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.


Michael Crichton (1942-2008) American author, producer, director, and screenwriter
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Crichton was quoted a number of times on the adage, which he in turn claimed was in more general use. However, he seems to have been key in popularizing it. See here for more discussion and specific citations. ]]> https://wist.info/crichton-michael/39837/feed/ 0 39837 Crichton, Michael -- Jurassic Park (movie) (1993) https://wist.info/crichton-michael/446/ https://wist.info/crichton-michael/446/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=446 HAMMOND: When they opened Disneyland in 1956 nothing worked.
MALCOLM: Yeah, but, John, if the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ breaks down, the pirates don’t eat the tourists.


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