Editing Quote by Don Roff

“Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.”

— 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

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”

— Patricia Fuller

“What makes it is when you go over the whole piece each day from the start to where you go on from rewriting it…

— Paul Hendrickson

“I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's like gardening…

— J.R. Tompkins

“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

“You have to regain control of the authorship of your life and realize that no one else is going to write the story for…

— Nate Green

“If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it... - It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff.”

— Deyth Banger

“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

“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”

— John Connolly

“Own anything you want in your writing and then let it go.”

— Natalie Goldberg

“Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.”

— Paul J. Silvia