Elimination Quote by Martha Albrand

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

— William Zinsser

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

— James Salter

Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.

— Roland Barthes

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

— Anne Clark

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

— Louise Brooks

I think all writing is done through memory

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

— Elie Wiesel

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

— Colm Toibin

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

— Ernest Hemingway