Best things Quote by Gerald Seymour

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

— William Strunk, Jr

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what…

— Jonathan Franzen

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Your first attempt will be terrible… Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft… Whenever someone sends me…

— Pamela Druckerman

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

— Holly Black

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on,…

— Joan Didion

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

— David Cronenberg

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

— Margaret Mitchell

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

— Mike Rutherford