Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Writerly quote du jour

This is a great quote about revising from singer-songwriter-novelist Jimmy Buffett, in the July 16, 2007 issue of TIME magazine (10 Questions, p. 4):

Q: When you're writing your books, do you do a lot of revising, or does it just come out nearly the way it ends up?
A: Oh, no, it's edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

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