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is essential. Crossing out is the secret of all good writing.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. (Mark Haddon)

is a process whereby every edit is a lie.

is a spector in every book. In a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. (Elie Wiesel)

 sometime consists in the writer working all the morning, and taking out a comma, and then in the afternoon putting it back again.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. Oscar Wilde

is a good start, but one ought to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. Henry Miller

is necessary in writing. Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. (Meister Johann Eckhart)

is the beginning of writing an article. Only when you have finished it to your satisfaction do you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. Mark Twain

is crucial to the writing process. There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting. (Louis D. Brandeis)

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