Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"To write is human, to edit is divine."

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."

"you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

"Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s."