Quotes and Sayings About Rewriting

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