Sublime

to write is human, to edit is divine.

“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”

Good fiction always begins with story and progresses to theme; it almost never begins with theme and progresses to story.

My own schedule is pretty clear-cut.

Writing is refined thinking.

(This inhuman place makes human monsters. This inhuman place)