Famous Quotes

"After you finish writing, read it at least twice, and try your best to delete the dispensable words, phrases, and paragraphs without any regrets." (Lu Xun)

“The skill of writing well is the skill of deleting the bad parts.” (Chekhov)

“The idea that writing can be written without revision must be abandoned forever. It's not enough to revise it three or four times." (Tolstoy)

Story

1. Mr. Lu Xun's novel "Soap" is about 7,000 words long. It was published, and nearly 150 words were revised when it was reprinted.

2. Cao Xueqin wrote "A Dream of Red Mansions" "I have read it for ten years, adding and deleting five times." It is true that "every word looks like blood, and ten years of hard work is unusual."

3. Qian Zhongshu made many revisions to "Fortress Besieged", involving thousands of content changes, including allusions, use of metaphors, structural adjustments, deletion of some descriptions, foreign language original text and transliteration, etc.

4. Tolstoy revised the description of Katyusha’s appearance in the novel “Resurrection” 20 times before finalizing it.

5. After the British poet Byron's work was delivered for publication, his burning passion often made him take the manuscript back and revise it again, and constantly added new verses until the last minute before publication.

6. "The spring breeze turns green to the south bank of the river." When Wang Anshi wrote this poem, he changed many words in the original manuscript. ", and then changed it to "Man", but they were not satisfactory. I revised it many times before finally settling on the word "Green".

7. When Jia Dao first came to the capital, he heard a sentence on his donkey one day that said: "The bird stayed in the tree by the pond, and the monk pushed the moon to come down to the door." He wanted to change the word "push" to "knock". Then he chanted "Oh" on the donkey and raised his hands to make gestures. Jia Dao unconsciously bumped into Han Yu's carriage and horses.

8. Once, Su Dongpo, his sister Su Xiaomei and poet friend Huang Shangu were discussing poetry and asking each other questions. After the younger sister said "gentle breeze and thin willows" and "pale moon plum blossoms", she asked her brother to add one word from each to express the poetic eye. Su Dongpo immediately said: Add "shake" to the former and "ying" to the latter sentence, which becomes "The gentle breeze shakes the thin willows, and the pale moon reflects the plum blossoms." Unexpectedly, Su Xiaomei judged it as "low quality". After Su Dongpo thought carefully, he said proudly: "Yes, 'the thin willows are dancing in the breeze, and the plum blossoms are hidden in the pale moon.'" The little girl smiled and said: "It's good, but it's still not top quality." Unable to bear it any longer, he asked, "What about Yi Xiaomei's advice?" Su Xiaomei then began to recite: "The gentle breeze supports the thin willows, and the pale moon loses the plum blossoms." Su Dongpo and Huang Shangu recited, thinking about it, and couldn't help holding their hands. Call it wonderful.