"When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done."

-- Stephen King

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“It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people.”
“It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.”
“I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?”
“Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.”
“A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.”
“That face. That body. And you know heâ€™s packing. Look at the angle on that dangle.”
“If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?”

Source : Edward Albee (2004). “The Play about the Baby”, Methuen Publishing
“You should only be in a relationship if it adds to your life.”

Source : "Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalfe bitches about "needy" ex, Nadine Coyle of Girls Aloud". www.mirror.co.uk. October 17, 2008.

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