Rewriting famous quotes

The best writing is rewriting.
-- E. B. White

#Writing #Learning #Rewriting

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

#Littles #Rewriting

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.
-- John Irving

#Two #Special #Rewriting

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

#Writing #Rewriting #Constant

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

#Mean #Three #Rewriting

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
-- Larry L. King

#Writing #Shortcuts #Rewriting

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
-- Louis D. Brandeis

#Writing #Rewriting #Great Writing

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.
-- Michael Moorcock

#Past #Rewriting #Scripts

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.
-- Neil Gaiman

#People #Rewriting #Facts

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
-- Peter Murphy

#Rewriting #Crafts #Toothbrushes

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

#Past #Rewriting #Focused

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

#Writing #Rewriting #Good Writing

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

#Art #Crafts #Rewriting

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

#Character #Rewriting #Reason

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

#Attitude #Differences #Rewriting

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

#People #Rewriting #Behinds

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.
-- Walter Ciszek

#Education #People #Rewriting

If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
-- William James

#Style #Firsts #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.
-- Oliver Harris

#Letters #Able #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.
-- Barry N. Malzberg

#Able #Rewriting #Vitality

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.
-- Christopher Michael Cillizza

#Rewriting #Trump #Has Beens

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

#Panic #Rewriting #Existentialism