Rewriting Quotations

When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that's as fun as it gets.

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.

I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. It's like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

I never got caught up in playing for history, seeing how many majors I could win, or rewriting the record books. Those are selfish objectives, and the guy who chokes usually does so because he dwells on what it all means to him. I was only worried about my family. And although I had my share of failures, it was never because I choked.

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

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

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back.

Mount Rainier offers drag and drop CD rewriting and on-the-fly formatting of the disc, making the CD the ideal floppy disk replacement.

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.

He's already done some things that's been a benefit to the county, like making a few changes in the budget so that maybe we can avoid a big tax increase. He and Justin are working on rewriting the land development code, which needed a lot of work done to it, but he's on top of the job and I think he's going to be a real asset to the county.

Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.

Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.

It is a rewriting of history by a heretical group. This is not a true historical account of what took place.

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

Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.

The best writing is rewriting.

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

We offered to move him to another office far away from the FEMA building, where he could do no harm, ... We told him that he would have a nice desk, a telephone and a secretary, and that he could spend all day rewriting his resume.

The structure of the farm bill should be maintained, ... This would include current eligibility rules and payment limit provisions. The budget process should not be used as a vehicle for rewriting farm policy.

The structure of the farm bill should be maintained. This would include current eligibility rules and payment limit provisions. The budget process should not be used as a vehicle for rewriting farm policy.

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.

Now, in an unbelievable rewriting of history, you talk about this bolder mission we undertook in response to 9/11 to transform the Middle East with Iraq as an anchor,

They've been rewriting the show and revamping it, but I would think it would need a massive overhaul of historic and miraculous proportions to be saved at this time.

This is the Energizer bunny that never runs out of power. The bottom line is that rewriting the constitution is about raising taxes, unlimited home rule and tampering with property rights and zoning issues.

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

The easier part was rewriting the doctrine. The difficult part of this will be actually doing it.

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

It provides for us a window 41/2 billion years back in time to observe the formation conditions of giant planets. This is a little bit about rewriting the textbooks about the outer planets.

That really placed him on the archaeological map. It really helped the beginnings of the rewriting of Egyptian history.

It's a variety show. We wrote it as we went along. As we were casting people, he was rewriting constantly. This guy's a genius. We deferred to each other. He's been in charge of himself and his show for 30 years and so have I. So we suddenly had a monster with two heads.

It's a very intimidating moment for all of us to realize that this is really the first foray after August's passing when a play of his is going through these stages. I'm sure that if he were with us he'd probably be rewriting to some degree. All we can do is make the very best result of the script that he left us.

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

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

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

We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

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.

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

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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

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

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

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

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.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Good writing is rewriting.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

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.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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.