Deleting Quote by Diem Burden

“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,”

— Paul Auster

“Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.”

— Sylvan Barnet

“There is no such thing as wasted writing.”

— Monica Wood

“I write more with the words I leave out.”

— Bryant McGill

“Words have the power to shoot down or raise up. Sharp cutting words can whirl for years.”

— Louise M. Wisechild

“Read a lot. Write a lot. Delete a lot.”

— Hannah Richell

“No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.”

— Merilyn Simonds

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

“Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.”

— Paul J. Silvia

“Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.”

— William Zinsser

“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.”

— J.L. Bond

“Writing is more about destroying than creating" (195).”

— Karl Ove Knausgaard