I think Quote by Emma Healey

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near…

— Todd Rundgren

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

— Rose Tremain

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 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

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan