Stories Quote by Stephen King

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things…

— Stephen King

“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are…

— Stephen King

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

“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 have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine…

— Sherwood Anderson

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

— Margaret Atwood

The best writing is rewriting.

— E. B. White

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

— Tom Skerritt

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

— Elizabeth Berg