Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more. What is left often springs into life.
Esther Freud
Author: Susan Uhlig
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
Patricia Fuller
Writing without revising is
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
The idea is to write
…the harder you make it on your hero, the easier it is for your reader to get behind them.
Jessica Brody
The harder you make it
I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
Shannon Hale