Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics. — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.” — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play. — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Don't keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn't setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life. — Deborah Day Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with… — Paul Lieberstein Copy Share Image
History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other… — Claude Bowers Copy Share Image
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then… — David Cross Copy Share Image
The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and… — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it.… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your… — Mary Rodgers Copy Share Image
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
