Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play. — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have… — Rachel Carson 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
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance.… — Steven Pressfield 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 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
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it… — Declan Lowney 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
“There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.” — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
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