Back Quote by Matt Ridley

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

— Tana French

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 write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to…

— Margery Allingham

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better…

— Jane Yolen

“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks…

— Dr. Seuss

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or…

— Joan Didion

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

— Biman Gandhi

I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.

— Peter Orner

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

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black