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I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
— Tony Gilroy
And always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on ...
— Basil Bunting
Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.
— Sarah Waters
[He] looked at her as though she'd lost her mind, and [she] had her first experience of men rewriting history. I did no such thing [he said]
— Jude Deveraux
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
— Roald Dahl
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.
— Tom Stoppard
Simply put: writing is rewriting.
— Ronald Dane
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
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for Before Coffee.
— Cherise Sinclair
Rewriting the world one heart at a time.
— Coco J. Ginger
Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.
— Lynne Tillman
We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.
— Ravi Zacharias
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.
— Susan Bell
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt ...
— William F. Buckley Jr.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
— Margaret Thatcher
Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.
— Scott Westerfeld
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
— Rose Tremain
The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.
— Michael Moorcock
Live your own life and chose your own path - rewriting destiny.
— Shelly Morgan
Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
— Khaled Hosseini
Writing is rewriting.
— Alan Winter
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.
— Ed Koch
Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.
— Neil Drumming
The real war will never get in the books.
— Walt Whitman
Any attentive reading is necessarily a kind of rewriting.
— Thierry Hentsch
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
— Roald Dahl
Interviews, research, more interviews, fact-checking, writing, rewriting - and then, in an instant, it is over,
— Hanya Yanagihara
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.
— Deborah Day
Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.
— Tom Stoppard
Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.
— Cathryn Louis
Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.
— Paul Engle
Awareness is the first step in rewriting old stories.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now; spring-time for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies.
— Oscar Wilde
I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful.
— James Baldwin
I have rewritten - often several times - every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I'm the one who still needs rewriting. Don't we all?
— Chuck Palahniuk
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
— David McCullough
The only kind of writing is rewriting.
— Ernest Hemingway,
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
— Alan Moore
As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.
— Robert Hayden
I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
— Scott Westerfeld
Good writing is rewriting.
— Truman Capote
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life! — Kristen McKee
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life! — Kristen McKee
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.
— Nora DeLoach
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
— Kate DiCamillo
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
— James A. Michener
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All writing is rewriting.
— John Green
Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!
— Philippe Kahn
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
— Robert Graves
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
— Philip Roth
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
— George Orwell
Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
— Harold Bloom
I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.
— Sherman Alexie
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
— Leo Tolstoy
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
— Saul Bellow
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.
— Romulus Linney
Don't be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.
— Shannon L. Alder
The best writing is rewriting.
— E.B. White
Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.
— Jami Attenberg