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
-
We’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
Who Wrote These Rewriting Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 70 Rewriting Quotes, led by these top contributors: