Confucius said….

…no, really,  he said this: “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

I’ve been reading The Essential Confucius while trying to hit the last edits on my book. To cheer myself up – or maybe just to feel less miserable?? – I’ve pulled together a few quotes to use as touchstones to get me to the finish line.

I’m in a sharing mood, so here you go:

“When you write a story, you are telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all of the things that are NOT the story.”  – Stephen King

“I don’t like to write. I like to have written.” – William Zinsser

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads.” – Dr. Seuss

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.” Patricia Fuller

“While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.” – Tiffany Madison