Rewrite Quotes

164 quotes by 141 authors

When you write a story, youâ€™re telling yourself the story,â€ he said. â€œWhen you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that… — Stephen King
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. — Umberto Eco
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage… — Henry Jenkins
Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard.… — Rainbow Rowell
Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way. — Robin G. Collingwood
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill… — Matt Ridley
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours. — Kevin Barry
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first… — John Irving
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you… — Joan Didion
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away… — Chuck Palahniuk
Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public, fueling a furious competition among… — Alex Berenson
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. — Jean Monnet
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their… — Henry Louis Gates
You can always change your story if your life is not going as you wish. When God created us he made us with pencil so… — Moyo Adekoya
; You cant rewrite your history when your choices hurt others in ways you can never understand. Take responsibility and ownership instead of pretending otherwise. — Brittany Marcum
What if you could rewrite your past? and change the most painful thing that came into your life...would you? — RockyMills
Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading… — John Goodman
I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything. — Larry Wachowski
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you… — John Sayles
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what… — Peter Straub

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