That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that… — Oliver Harris 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
Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We… — William Zinsser 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
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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
That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
My records have a lot of collaborators on them, and when you're writing a book, it's a very insular process that's very… — Michelle Zauner 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
Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Their first task therefore, was to translate the original C# codebase into Java so that it could leverage Google's infrastructure. One of… — Edmond Lau Copy Share Image
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong… — William James Copy Share Image
Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because… — Hunter Hayes 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
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story,… — Rebecca Stead 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
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We… — S.J. Watson 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
