Rewriting Quotes - Page 5

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

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Trump, Has Beens

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Years, California

  Source: scottlondon.com

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

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, Paper

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• The rewriting is always crucial to what I do; whenever I do a scene, I always tell myself that this isn't final and that I can do it again, better. The pacing is probably from experience. I've always liked gradual disclosure. I keep thinking of my rubber-band theory. You have a rubber band that you keep pulling and pulling and pulling, and just at the moment of snapping you release it and start another chapter and start pulling again.

  Robert Cormier

  Thinking, Finals, Band

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking up again around ten, going until a touch after midnight. I rarely write in the morning, unless I'm on deadline. I do like rewriting in the morning, though. Guess it's the way my brain's put together. Or, the way it's falling apart.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Morning, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.buffaloalmanack.com

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• When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Cutting

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• The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

  Philip Roth

  Book

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.

  Debra Dean

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story isn't there in the beginning, right from the start, I generally can't beat it into shape no matter how much rewriting I do.

  Mary J. Miller

  Two, Trying, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Writing, Good Writing

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• Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant.

  Mary J. Miller

  Memories, Oddities, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Harry Turtledove

  Trying, Done, Each Day

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Inspiration, Persistence, Numbers

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• 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, Vitality, Fundamentals

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• I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out the first draft very quickly. I can do it in five to six weeks. Then, it takes a year of rewriting it and rewriting it.

  Eran Creevy

  Writing, Years, Two

  Source: collider.com

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

  Ed Koch

  People, Feel Good, Should

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

  Antonin Scalia

  Should Have, Law, Credit

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.241, Regnery Publishing

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• Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Mean, Essence

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• 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.

  Lynne Tillman

  Believe, Writing, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Pieces, Form, Programming

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• 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.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Way, Pounds

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Trying, Unendurable

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2001.

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• We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Reality, Doctors

  "The Invisibles". Comic book series by Grant Morrison, Volume 3, issue #04, The Invisible Kingdom, Part 1: Planet Stepford, 1994-2000.

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• 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 Pratchett

  Ice Cream, Law, Hot

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.161, Random House

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• The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

  Hugo Black

  Views, Justice, Judging

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