If you write every day, you’re going to write a lot of things that aren’t terribly good, but you’re going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.
Nicholson Baker
Author: Susan Uhlig
Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more. What is left often springs into life.
Esther Freud
Editing is everything
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