Inspiration Quote by Don Roff

“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.”

— Kai Strand

“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living…

— Don Roff

“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.”

— Scott William Carter

“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are…

— Stephen King

“As for advice—write as much as you can! Time’s ticking, and if you don’t throw everything you have into your stories today, you might…

— Darren Shan

“Don’t tell me to write your story. Write your own story. If you won’t write it down, it probably isn’t worth writing down—or reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and…

— Dorothy Allison

“It is difficult to create a new story when we are still living in our past stories.”

— Teri Karjala

“Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.”

— John R. Erickson

“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us,…

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today. Sit down, and…

— M. Kirin