Flannery O'Conner, Roald Dahl Quotes and my own

A Few Quotes from Flannery O’Connor… and some of my own:

Writing time---2 hours –let nothing interfere.

Try arranging your novel backwards.

Do not take a year off.

Read some Shakespeare to limber up your language.

      Rewrite. Rewrite. Rewrite.

      Never speak colloquially. You will lower the tone.

      Fully develop your characters, as if they were a book to themselves.

      Reread favorite authors.

      Read your work out loud.

Roald Dahl, popular children's writer says, By the time I'm nearing the end of a story, the first part will  have been reread and altered and corrected at least 150 times.....good writing is essentially rewriting.  I am positive of this."