I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with…

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

— William Goldman

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.

— Amanda Gorman

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out…

— David Byrne

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found…

— Karin Slaughter

The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and…

— Toni Morrison

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to…

— Aleksey Igudesman

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when…

— John Sayles

I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more…

— Anne-Marie Duff

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

— Jean Monnet

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with…

— Helen Dunmore

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

— Jay Asher

“If you had your time all over again…? She was keen to know. You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.”

— Maeve Binchy

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

— Bill Cosby