Back Quote by Jim Rash

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but…

— Gore Vidal

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always,…

— Harry Turtledove

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...

— Will Self

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I don't like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft - that's too much like work. There's not much inspiration about it,…

— Scott Turow

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But…

— James A. Michener

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even…

— Barry N. Malzberg

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story…

— Leslie Jamison

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing…

— Isabel Allende