Quotes from Susan Bell

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

W. H. Auden used to say, rather pungently, that he could only truly "see" a poem once it's typed because "a man likes his own handwriting the way he likes the smell of his own farts.

If you control your reading too much, you cease to be involved in it.

The old nut goes, 'Write what you know,' but often a writer is clearer about what he doesn't know and must learn about.

Editing is a conversation, not a monologue