"On the whole, I have found editors friendly and pleasant, but unpredictable and occasionally embarrassing in their desperation. So seldom do they get what they think they want that they tend to become incoherent in their insistent repetition of their needs. A writer does well to listen to them, but not too often, and not for too long." --Jerome Weidman "The best advice on writing I've ever received was, 'Rewrite it!' A lot of editors said that. They were all right. Writing is really rewriting--making the story better, clearer, truer." --Robert Lipsyte "If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You're a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle." --Richard Rhodes "Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going." --William Zinsser "The 'best advice' I think is in reading good writers, not seeking advice from them, for we learn best by emulating the best." --Gay Talese
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