Danielle Poiesz

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.”
― Elie Wiesel

“The first draft is black and white. Editing gives the story color.”
― Emma Hill

“If you treat editing like you're making an abridged version of your book, it can help determine what's vital vs what can be cut.”
― Kira Hawke