Danielle Poiesz

“If you treat editing like you're making an abridged version of your book, it can help determine what's vital vs what can be cut.”
― Kira Hawke

“No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.”
― Merilyn Simonds, Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide

“Most often when I stammer
That's my brain
Correcting my grammer.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.”
― Elie Wiesel