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- 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
- I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy
- I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it.… — Amy Hempel
- I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing… — Eric Jerome Dickey
- History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other… — Claude Bowers
- 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
- Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. — Peter Murphy