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“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”(Casual Chance, 1964)”

- Colette

Tag: creative-process, editing, self-criticism, writing,

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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”

- Richard Bach

Tag: editing, richard-bach, writing,

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“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”

- Stephen King,

Tag: darlings, deleting, editing, kill, revising, writing,

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“Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. ”

- Dark Jar Tin Zoo,

Tag: absence, amazement, amazing, commas, editing, funny, god, humor, love, lover, relationships, sex, sex-god, transform, transformation, word-junkies, writer, writing,

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