The best writing is rewriting.

“Writing is rewriting.”

— Alan Winter

The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that…

— George Saunders

“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the…

— Kate Beaton

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just…

— Lynne Tillman

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

— John Updike

[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what…

— Rachel Carson

Good writing is rewriting.

— Truman Capote

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the…

— Rebecca Stead

What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by…

— G. M. Trevelyan

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't…

— William Zinsser

“Simply put: writing is rewriting.”

— Ronald Dane

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

— David McCullough