Beatrice Thomas

“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

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.”
― Stephen King

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens