Page Quote by Jacqueline Woodson Download Open image “I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.” — Jacqueline Woodson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lot Rhythm Page Rewrite Rewrite Lot Rhythm Rhythm Story Right Story Story Right Until Writer
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Sometimes the first… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do… — Britta Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of the misogyny,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
Having been a 'Page 3' model I know what is it like to be singled out as one thing, to be dismissed as unintelligent… — Keeley Hazell Copy Share Image
“As I stare at the blank page, I am at once awash inwords but unable to find the ones I want to use.” — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find. — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either. — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
