“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”
— Stephen King
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Writing Sickness
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
— George Orwell
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Uncertain Territory
“The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory – and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place – the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.”
— Nicole Krauss
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Truth Waiting
“Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.”
— Don DeLillo
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Successful Fowl
“The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.”
— Gene Fowler
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Advice to a Writer
“I never know how to give advice to a writer because there’s so much you could say, and it’s hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.”
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Quality of Speaking
“The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.”
— Robertson Davies
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Make A Writer…
“Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.”
— Dennis Miller
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Late-Night Absurdity
“You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.”
— Joss Whedon
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This Is Your Job…
“Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can’t quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.”
— Bruce Springsteen
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