you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, yo... - Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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

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

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings."

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

"When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest."