Revision Quote by Pamela Erens

“Do not be afraid to seize whatever you have written and cut it to ribbons; it can always be restored to its original condition…

— E.B. White

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and…

— David Mamet

“I am a writer....a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and…

— Ey Wade

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

— Rachel Cusk

“Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

“I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.”

— Sherman Alexie

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty

“Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become…

— Nora DeLoach

“My advice to writers is this: Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn, work, play,…

— S. Alex Martin

“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.”

— Julie Rodelli

“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