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I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore.…

— Alice Munro

Good writing is rewriting.

— Truman Capote

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

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

— Jeannette Walls

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the…

— Rebecca Stead

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the…

— James Frey

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love…

— Kim Smith

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

— Deborah Eisenberg

“One great difference between good writing, that readers overlook, and bad writing, that they fail to notice, has to do with the number of…

— Ira Levin

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

— Louis D. Brandeis