“So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?” ShouldWritingCuttingFrustrated Author:Ted Nelson
“Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.” ThinkingWritingKindLittlesI CanIdeasHappensAbleBoysNovelPathCuttingWillingHolesLeapGet BackBroadsSectionsBlacknessRight Path Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.” WritingSecretCuttingProgressRocksMountainPicksFlowHighwaysChipping AwaySlow Progress Author:Piers Anthony
“Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.” WritingCuttingFats Author:James McBride
“I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.” IfsThinkingWritingBookDifferentWholeAgeWonderCuttingComputerParagraphRevisingDeleting Author:Megan McCafferty
“Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.” WritingMeanLearningCuttingProgrammingGood WritingRibbonsRevising Author:William Strunk, Jr.
“Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.” IfsWritingYearsStoriesCuttingSubjectsProduceCoupleHollywoodEdgesCutting Edge Author:George Clooney
“When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.” ThinkingGivingWritingEnoughCuttingRework Author:Ray Bradbury
“When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.” GivingWritingChildrenWholeMotivationalTogetherMotherLeftCuttingPoetBirthBiggerMeaningfulAriseIslandsDancerMeaninglessIsolatedNot AloneLeft Alone Author:Rajneesh