Rewriting Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

  Steven Pressfield

  Work, Artist, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.67, Black Irish Books

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• Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Order, Two

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• Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

  Edward Gorey

  Light, Tears, Bed

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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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• 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, Proletariat

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• 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, Would Be

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.277, St. Martin's Press

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• The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

  Michael Moorcock

  Past, Scripts

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.21, Del Rey

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• If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Law, Firsts

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

  Robert Hayden

  Writing, Discovery, Possibility

  Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.156, University of Michigan Press

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• Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

  Neil Drumming

  Writing, Criticism, Journalism

  "Interview: ‘Big Words’ Director Neil Drumming Talks Hip-Hop, Career, and Influences". Interview with Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. July 11, 2013.

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Stories

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• The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.

  Rafael Cruz

  Writing, Order, Law

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it be funny if my character did this?" "No. You're the actor. I'll tell you what to do."

  Declan Lowney

  Drama, Character, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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, Cases

  Source: bigother.com

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• The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.

  George Saunders

  Running, Writing, Years

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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