Rewriting Quotes

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

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

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

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

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

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

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.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

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

Good writing is rewriting.

I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.

The best writing is rewriting.

We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

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

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

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

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

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

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

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

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

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.

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

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

The only kind of writing is 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.

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

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.