Amount Quote by Maya Lin

If I have some extra words and I'm trying to make it fit into that shape, then I just sort of take out the…

— Helen Frost

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,

— Anonymous

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

— George Orwell

It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long,…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped…

— Maya Angelou

I put the words down and push them a bit.

— Evelyn Waugh

When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will stick out,…

— Jorja Smith

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is…

— Francine Prose

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to…

— James Salter

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is…

— E. L. Doctorow

I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered…

— Siri Hustvedt