Replace Quote by Robert Ben Garant

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

— Natalie Goldberg

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

— John Green

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

— Elie Wiesel

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

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

— Anne Clark

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that…

— Robin Pecknold

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

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

— Leo Tolstoy

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts