Tracy Verdecchia

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King