Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

— Douglas Coupland

I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad…

— Douglas Coupland

[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

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

— George Orwell

I started out writing largely about my own sex life, but I always tried to bring that around to the bigger picture, and how…

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I…

— Khaled Hosseini

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

— Philip Roth

There are all kinds of humor and I have largely indulged in clean comedy.

— Kiku Sharda

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's…

— Vikram Seth

There are all kinds of people who continue to be largely ignored by advertisers, whose lives largely go unseen. They deserve their moment.

— Roxane Gay

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

— Dalton Camp

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

— Edward Conard

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research…

— Seth Shostak

I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's…

— Peter Higgs