Stephen King Quotes on Editing

3 quotes

  1. The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection. Put another way, to write is human, to edit is divine.

  2. When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story...When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

  3. I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

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