Rewriting Quotes

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

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.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

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

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

Good writing is rewriting.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.