5 Great Quotations about Revising

“A simple act of putting on clothes is almost impossible for me to describe without many false starts.” - Eudora Welty

“First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.” - Somerset Maugham

“One tends to write beyond what’s needed.” - James Schuyler

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” - Stephen King

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” - Robert Cormier

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