"When I start a project, the first thing I do is write down, in longhand, everything I know about the subject, every thought I've ever had on it. This may be twelve or fourteen pages. Then I read it through, for quite a few days...then I try to fnd out what are the salient points that I must make. And then it begins to take shape."

--Maya Angelou

"I have rewritten--often several times--every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers."

--Vladimir Nabokov

"Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line--try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on....Writing is a means of discovery, always."

--Garrison Keillor

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

The Writer’s Complex

The University of Victoria’s Hypertext Writing Guide