Go Quote by James Lapine

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a…

— Kurt Loder

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a…

— Kurt Loder

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.…

— John Steinbeck

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get…

— Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes it is better to re-write than overwriting. Avoiding the repetition is the best.

— Biman Gandhi

. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.

— Craig Lucas

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

— Kurt Loder

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

— John Steinbeck

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

— William Faulkner

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