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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. -- Ray Bradbury
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl? -- Anna Funder
I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. -- Frank Auerbach
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels. -- Ted Turner
This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives. -- Holly Lisle
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art. -- Ernest Becker
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. -- John Mellencamp
Nothing comes naturally to me...I have to work and rework and that's where the ideas come from - from years of working on it and thinking about it. -- Markus Zusak
Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling of clarity and motivation. -- Kathy Sierra
It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize. -- Anjelica Huston
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. -- Fred Brooks
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable. -- E. J. Hughes
For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in. -- Jon Foreman
I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method. -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I record the result, and I rework on it. Sometimes it takes a while to come with an idea, but mostly it comes naturally because I already have a connection with the song. -- Shook
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated. -- John Pfahl
At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it leads. This might mean reworking his interpretation of Genesis on the subject-much like Christians have had to rework their interpretation of biblical passages referring to the sun rising and setting, the earth not moving, or the earth resting on foundations. -- Paul Copan
With liberalisation, Indian industry gained international exposure because of which it became imperative for companies to rework their strategies to become globally competitive. -- Baba Kalyani
If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur. -- Mark Cuban
The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I've dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework. -- Martin Scorsese

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