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Rewriting Quotes

David Cronenberg quote: "Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very..."
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. David Cronenberg
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, probably late, to your editor. Kurt Loder
Jules Shear quote: "Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've..."
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it. Jules Shear
See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin."--Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch David Cronenberg
Jeannette Walls quote: "I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of..."
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. Jeannette Walls
Gay Talese quote: "I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in..."
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. Gay Talese
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
Basil Bunting quote: "and always the cutting out and the buggering about and the..."
...and always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on... Basil Bunting
The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics. Terry Prachett
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. Stephen King
Terry Prachett quote: "If you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly..."
If you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. Terry Prachett
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth. Christopher Hitchens
Oscar Wilde quote: "The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. Oscar Wilde
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance. Stephen Covey
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

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