Advice from the Experts

I’m neck-deep in a rewrite of Shaken, so I decided to go to the experts — a.k.a. the Internet –for some advice. You can find some great stuff on google. Here are some great quotes about editing and rewriting. Enjoy.

Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ~Colette, Casual Chance, 1964

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ~Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracián

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ~English Professor (Name Unknown), Ohio University

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. ~Author Unknown

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov