Jobs Quote by Stephen King

“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

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

— Stephen King

“This is something I've learned from writing my own short stories, novels and screenplays. Editors and film producers will often keep asking for rewrites…

— Rob Parnell

“You can rewrite your personal story!”

— Mary Buchan

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine…

— Sherwood Anderson

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story." "And what if your story doesn't…

— Terry Pratchett

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

— Neil Gaiman

“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

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan