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Man has always tried to rewrite his history but the mind is unforgiving, more so is time" - The Monk — Shashi

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body. — Bruce H. Lipton

I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever. — Jenna Bush

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk Jr.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. — Joseph Heller

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. — Oscar Wilde

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde

It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. — Douglas Tompkins

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. — Marjorie Garber

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 — Lady Gaga

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration. — Kameron Hurley

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it. — Jodi Picoult

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. — Terry Pratchett

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it. — William Faulkner

But I can't rewrite history. I can love only with what's left. — Suzanne Young

Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet — Andrei Makine

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite. — Akhil Sharma

Magic happens in the rewrite! — Pam Binder

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. — Tana French

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion. — Alessandro Baricco

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good. — Jamie Farr

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work. — Jeff Daniels

Don't document bad code - rewrite it. — Brian Kernighan

Getting published is a matter of luck. The more we rewrite, the luckier we get. — Pierre Van Rooyen

It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Life is a first draft ... with NO rewrite. — George Bernard Shaw

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so. — Northrop Frye

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them. — Harvey Fierstein

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. — Gay Talese

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script. — Kelly Marcel

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. — Jean Monnet

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived. — David Bowie

Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst. — Tamora Pierce

He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past. — Anne Fortier

If at first you don't succeed, write, rewrite again. — J. Helen Elza

It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened. — George Orwell

These things are going to eat away at me ... I rewrite the script in my head until it's 100-proof poison, and none of it helps at all. — Nick Hornby

But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left. — Suzanne Young

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. — Kurt Loder

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own. — Demi Lovato

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite. — Paul Graham

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh. — Gary McCord

Rewrite your tale of woe as a tale of wow — Karen Salmansohn

No, I don't have the slightest desire to rewrite the past or history or whatever. What I'd like to rewrite is the present, here and now. — Haruki Murakami

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat. — Sean Durkin

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. — Umberto Eco

What isn't remembered never happened.

Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record. — Yoshitoshi ABe

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. — Elizabeth Lesser

You can rewrite your personal story! — Mary Buchan

You can't rewrite the past — Jay Asher

Our lives should be written in stone. Paper is too temporary - too easy to rewrite. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

I have rewritten - often several times - every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. — Vladimir Nabokov

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it. — William Manchester

Don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do. — Craig Lucas

If life hands you some crappy chapters. . . then rewrite your story. — Ireland Gill

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything. — Lana Wachowski

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied. — M.J. Rose

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws. — John Cornyn

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed — Brian Tracy

I don't get to rewrite my story; I just have to stumble to the end of it. — Jodi Picoult

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell

If you had your time all over again ... ? She was keen to know.
You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do. — Maeve Binchy

I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it. — Patrick Ness

A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses. — S. Kelley Harrell

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite. — William H. Macy

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage. — Rick Scarborough

Let's rewrite what has been written for us. Let's promise a happy ending this time. — Cherry Seniel

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite. — Elmore Leonard

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. — Stephen King

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. — George W. Bush

I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. — Ruth Rendell

I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more. — Laura Z. Hobson

if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive. — Why The Lucky Stiff

[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130) — Milan Kundera

Write it
Like it
Read it
Hate it
Rewrite it
Done — Steven M. Nedeau

I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it. — Matt Ridley

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. — John Steinbeck

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown

Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours. — Kevin Barry

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I don't want to rewrite history. — Keith Fullerton Whitman

I can't rewrite history. — Pattie Boyd

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it." — Tony Hillerman

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. - BILL COSBY — Timothy Ferriss

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don't comment bad code - rewrite it. — Brian W. Kernighan

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear. — E.B. White

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way. — Robin G. Collingwood

Our belief in our divinity will rewrite our life, and create it anew — Masami Saionji

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury

I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes. — Lenny Abrahamson

What I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it. — Susan Sontag

Those unuttered words of your smile can rewrite the history of this wonderful world. — Debasish Mridha

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine. — Indu Muralidharan

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind. — Deepak Chopra

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. — Stephen King

I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner. — Michael Trucco