Clear Quote by Chuck Klosterman

I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more…

— Chuck Klosterman

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline…

— Ted Solotaroff

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's…

— Ramsey Campbell

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic.…

— Meg Wolitzer

Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you…

— Sophy Burnham

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

I don't like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft - that's too much like work. There's not much inspiration about it,…

— Scott Turow

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

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

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is…

— Marilyn Hacker

I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write…

— Jennifer Egan