Good stories Quote by Phyllis A. Whitney

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't…

— Michael Crichton

Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of…

— Spencer Antle

Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

— R.C. Bannon

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

— Stephen Sondheim

Everything maybe pre-written but nothing is rewritten.

— Anonymous

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

— Peter Stone

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

— Michael Crichton

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

— Margaret Atwood

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

— Sophie Marceau

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's…

— Donald Miller

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

— R. A. Lafferty