Rewrite Quotes
164 quotes by 137 authors
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If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.
— Jodi Picoult
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Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that…
— N.D. Wilson
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See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm,…
— David Cronenberg
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I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
— Margaret Mitchell
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Already liberals are trying to rewrite the history of the Cold War to remove Reagan from its core, to make him a doddering B-movie actor…
— Ann Coulter
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The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
— Umberto Eco
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We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10
— Lady Gaga
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...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
— Susan Sontag
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She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when…
— Dave Eggers
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A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the…
— Kathryn Erskine
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I can't. You can't rewrite the past.
— Jay Asher
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
— Elmore Leonard
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…I feel like he’s taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any way that he likes and…
— S.J. Watson
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I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
— Oscar Wilde
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exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to…
— David Levithan
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This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide…
— David Levithan
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes…
— Stephen King
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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need…
— Michael Sandel
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