Rewrites Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best… — Dean Dillon
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York… — Terry Brooks
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read
The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even… — Anthony Greenwald
Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis. — Austin O'Malley
Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the… — Josh Gates
Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is… — Daisaku Ikeda
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they… — Peter Drucker
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who… — Terrence McNally
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. — Francine Pascal
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction… — Paulo Freire
There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10… — Michael Nesmith
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. — John Podhoretz
It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue.… — Gail Caldwell
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think… — Shannon Hale
Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make… — Gil Gerard
As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'. — Tom Skerritt

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