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“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.”
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“No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.”
― Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide
― Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide
“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.”
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“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
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