Goes on Quote by Dean Koontz

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or…

— Joan Didion

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

— Anne Perry

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five…

— Alan Dean Foster

I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and…

— Matt Ridley

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get…

— Dean Koontz

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

— Jeff Daniels

I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished…

— Yiyun Li

Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.

— Chris Pavone

Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as…

— Roddy Doyle

Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

— William Bolcom

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

— Francine Pascal

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

— William Bolcom