Rewrite Quotes

164 quotes by 137 authors

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
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
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
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell
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
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco
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
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it. — Susan Sontag
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
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
I can't. You can't rewrite the past. — Jay Asher
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. — Elmore Leonard
â€¦I feel like heâ€™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
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
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
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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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