“In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.Sydney Smith
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.Stephen King