Back Quote by David Berman

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

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 do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always,…

— Harry Turtledove

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

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

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

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of…

— Philip Roth

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first…

— Robert Stone

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

[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