Corpses Quote by Helen Dunmore

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

— Helen Dunmore

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know…

— Alan Dean Foster

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and…

— Peter Straub

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 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

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out.…

— Mark Twain

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

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

— Robert Ben Garant

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

— Elmore Leonard

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and…

— Ally Carter

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

— Jane Gardam

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind…

— Michael Koryta