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

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

“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

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov