Editing Quote by David Mitchell

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

— Joan Armatrading

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 think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

— Truman Capote

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the last fifty…

— David Berman

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Simply put: writing is rewriting.”

— Ronald Dane

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

“Writing is rewriting.”

— Alan Winter

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

— Roald Dahl