Funny Quote by Helen Dunmore

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with…

— Helen Dunmore

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least…

— Roald Dahl

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

— Larry L. King

I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“When I asked Sam Shillace, who ran Gmail and Google Apps for four years, about the costliest mistake he's seen engineers make, his response…

— Edmond Lau

“It takes one person to rewrite the history book.”

— J.R. Rim

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

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

— Lou Barlow

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

— Daniel Clowes

“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.”

— Anna Quindlen

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

— Steve Albini

Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and…

— Daniel Clowes