Beautiful Quote by 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

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's…

— James Lapine

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

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

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Biman Gandhi

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

— William Faulkner

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

— Wolf Blitzer

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

— Francine Pascal