Rewrite Quotes

164 quotes by 141 authors

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. — Laurell K. Hamilton
So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and… — Salma Hayek
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit… — Jo Nesbo
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning… — Joyce Carol Oates
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel… — Joyce Carol Oates
I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks. — Anne Perry
I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of… — Michael Phelps
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger… — Nile Rodgers
I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from… — Howard Schultz
Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then… — Christopher Walken
I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on… — Joss Whedon
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act… — Stephen Covey
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. — Stephen King
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. — Terry Pratchett
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. — Stephen King
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius.… — James N. Frey
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power… — Paulo Coelho
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it… — Stephen King

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