Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. -Bernard Malamud

Whether it's creative, personal, or academic, we want teens to develop a healthy respect for the craft that unites all disciplines–writing.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do. -Michael Porter

Teens can write. Teens will write. They just need to be given the opportunity and space to write from a place of compassion and spirit, without any consequence other than to quench a literary thirst that has been aching to be creatively sated. —delmetria millener, founder

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
—Vladimir Nabokov, leading prose stylist of the 21st century