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- Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King
- What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan
- Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke… — Ted Solotaroff
- Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. — Peter Murphy
- There is no great writing, only great rewriting. — Louis D. Brandeis
- Good writing is rewriting. — Truman Capote
- Good writing is essentially rewriting. — Roald Dahl
- Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft… — Richard North Patterson
- When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson
- I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy
- Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying. — John Updike
- My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's… — Joan Didion