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- When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King
- Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke… — Ted Solotaroff
- I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More… — John Dos Passos
- Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so… — Gichin Funakoshi
- Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think… — Marion Dane Bauer
- I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour
- When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to… — Hugh Prather
- I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full… — Unknown Author
- The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King
- Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time… — Melissa Rosenberg
- If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with… — Antonya Nelson
- Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some… — Charles Bates