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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

— Cameron Crowe

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Jeannette Walls

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.

— Carol Berg

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

— Eddie Van Halen

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

— Wale

I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to write, if I catch myself trying to write, I'll fall right on my face. I'll see it. If I see in the prose that I'm - 'Boy, look at me writing,' I rewrite it. I rewrite it because I don't, because I think it's distracting.

— Elmore Leonard

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

— Janet Fitch

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

— Barbara Mertz

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I write something, I constantly rewrite.

— Nia Vardalos

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini