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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.
I've rewritten a lot of the scripts I've done. 'Little Shop Of Horrors' was a complete rewrite, but I didn't touch the dialogue. Essentially, I'm a very good editor.
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.
I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot.
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we`re in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.
A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.
I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.
I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.
I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.
When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.
We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they're too big to fail.
The Biden administration has embraced the divisive curriculum of Critical Race Theory to rewrite history and paint the United States as a villain.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.
I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.
If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.
I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.
The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh.
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite.
We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.
I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.
Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.
