Get Quote by Peter Hedges

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

— William Zinsser

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

— David Cronenberg

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

— Barry Hannah

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

— Roald Dahl

“This is something I've learned from writing my own short stories, novels and screenplays. Editors and film producers will often keep asking for rewrites…

— Rob Parnell

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have…

— William Zinsser