“I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.”
Gore Vidal
“I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.”
Robert Stone
“It's one of those policies we have to look at. Maybe we have to rewrite the policy.”
Christine Nelson
“Nobody on our side liked (the new version). It was basically a rewrite of the old draft. It's obvious that the movie and the record folks think they're in the driver's seat with this one.”
Art Brodsky
“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
James A. Michener
“When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.”
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
“A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.”
Michael Douglas
