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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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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