Rewriting Quotes

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in.

Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.

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.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.

...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her dear dog a bone.Though the cupboard was bare, When she focused elsewhereHer heart overflowed with fun!

There was a little girlWho had a little curlRight in the middle of her forehead.When she was good, she was very, very good.And when she was “bad”, Her Papa loved her anyway.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.