Jess

“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“you’re very close to being an Eight, and when you’re an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Every tree has a memory.”
― Viola Shipman, Christmas in Tinsel Tree Village

“is use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate and colorful. If you hesitate and cogitate, you will come up with another word—of course you will, there’s always another word—but it probably won’t be as good as your first one, or as close to what you really mean.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft