Rewriting Quotes - Page 2

• I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

  David McCullough

  Weed, Writing, Marijuana

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again...all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened.. to people who didnt know how to write... so...

  David Cross

  Bible, Kings, Writing

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

  Jules Shear

  Mean, Three, Ifs

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• The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

  Umberto Eco

  Knowledge, Intelligent, People

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

  Paul Engle

  Writing

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

  Helen Dunmore

  Stills, Ifs

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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

  Jami Attenberg

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "Go forth (Vol.10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Four, Revision

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• 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.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Skeletons, Hair, Clothes

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• Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing

  "Khaled Hosseini: How I Write". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. November 7, 2012.

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

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Screenplays, Knows

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• There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.

  Romulus Linney

  Sex, Play, Three

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• Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.

  Helen Dunmore

  Nice, Writing, Feelings

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Good writing is essentially rewriting.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Good Writing

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

  Sam Shepard

  Art, Writing, Crafts

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• I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.

  Sam Keen

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Writing, Dark, Mind

  Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

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• When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Typewriters, Feet

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.

  Kate Beaton

  Writing, Firsts, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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, Existentialism, Process

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• 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.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Reading, Mean

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

  Jimmy Webb

  Littles

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

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Errors, Life Is Like

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “The Rules of Attraction”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

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• In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

  Louis Dudek

  Writing, Fake, Degrees

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• I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Elements, Alive

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