Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying. — John Updike 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
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - "… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,… — Jennifer Beals 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
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
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out.… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
God knows nobody hated running more than me. Because I was writing and rewriting the script, I thought that I'm going to… — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft… — Richard North Patterson 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
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By… — Anonymous 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
Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies.… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
