Rewriting Quotes

70 quotes by 65 authors

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting. — Tony Gilroy
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty,… — Joan Didion
[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you… — Rachel Carson
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a… — Steve Jobs
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it. — Jules Shear
Writing for me is largely about rewriting. — Khaled Hosseini
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's… — John Irving
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — Alan Moore
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes… — Joyce Carol Oates
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some… — James Patterson
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger… — Nile Rodgers
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens. — Grant Morrison
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. — Bret Easton Ellis
The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew… — Terry Pratchett
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop… — Steven Pressfield
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial… — Robert A. Heinlein
The best writing is rewriting. — Elwyn Brooks White
Weâ€™re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically.… — S.J. Watson
...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that… — Patrick deWitt
Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and… — Edward Gorey

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