Hard Quote by Jonathan Franzen

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

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the last fifty…

— David Berman

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

— Natalie Goldberg

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

— Carrie Brownstein

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 envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

— Charles Krauthammer

The best writing is rewriting.

— E. B. White

I find writing to be unpleasant, so the faster I can get it done, the better.

— Ti West

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

— Leo Tolstoy