Wolf Blitzer Quotes

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

You become a great writer by writing.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever.

Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it's almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.