Rewriting Quotes
70 quotes by 66 authors
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Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
— Larry L. King
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've…
— Ted Solotaroff
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Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
— Peter Murphy
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Good writing is rewriting.
— Truman Capote
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
— Roald Dahl
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Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point…
— Richard North Patterson
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
— John Updike
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and…
— Joan Didion
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By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one…
— Roald Dahl
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Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words…
— Roberta Gellis
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And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it,…
— Paul Reiser
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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
— David McCullough
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Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for…
— Ann Coulter
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at…
— William James
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I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
— Rose Tremain
Who Wrote These Rewriting Quotes
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