I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very…

“I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.”

— César Aira

Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph…

— Elizabeth Strout

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

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

— Sol Stein

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

— Neil Drumming

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man,…

— Vicki Lawrence

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with…

— Helen Dunmore

“Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.”

— Scott Westerfeld

“Writing is rewriting.”

— Alan Winter

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a…

— Kurt Loder

The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one…

— Terry Pratchett

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

— Philip Roth

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza