"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter." - James Michener
"To write is human, to edit is divine" - from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut." - from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs." - from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen king
"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open." - from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work." - from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain
The Language of Composition.pdf