If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“If we had the power to rewrite our histories, what stories would we tell?” — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters. — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When it comes to having your manuscript edited, the truth will set you free; just as soon as you rewrite the whole… — Al Boudreau Copy Share Image
“You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own… — V.T. Davy Copy Share Image
“[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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