{"quotes":[{"text":"Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.","author":"Judith McNaught","tags":["experience","plan","revision"],"id":16745,"author_id":"Judith+McNaught"},{"text":"The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["inspirational","revision","storytelling","writers","writing-process"],"id":54507,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"In writing, you must kill all your darlings.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["revision","writing"],"id":91609,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.Com).","author":"Christopher Lehman","tags":["humor","revision","writing"],"id":142153,"author_id":"Christopher+Lehman"},{"text":"I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer. Henry James or Thomas Mann could easily write it, but not I. 'I'm thinking of writing it from the point of view of someone at the hotel who observes her,' I said, but this did not fill me with much hope. Then my friend, who is not a writer, suggested I try it from the omniscient author's point of view.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["feminism","point-of-view","revision"],"id":149530,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"},{"text":"Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["on-writing","revision","writing"],"id":163915,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.","author":"Pamela Erens","tags":["revision","writing-process"],"id":175585,"author_id":"Pamela+Erens"},{"text":"When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["crime","manuscript","print","revising","revision"],"id":177643,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["advice","draft","finishing","revision","writing","zero"],"id":186711,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revi.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["creative-process","exercise","failure","imagination","revision","writing"],"id":192641,"author_id":"Stephen+King"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}