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Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%. -- Stephen King
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. -- Larry L. King
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed -- Brian Tracy
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft. -- Tobsha Learner
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. -- John Steinbeck
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. -- Bill Cosby
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. -- George W. Bush
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. -- Steve Earle
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. -- Michael Crichton
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club. -- Ryan Holmes
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need. -- Harlan Coben
The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition. -- Robert Agostinelli
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. -- Joan Didion
If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control. -- Rasmus Lerdorf
Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it. -- John Goodman
Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export. -- Bernie Sanders
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. -- Harlan Coben
I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style. -- Anne-Marie Duff
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story. -- Louis Sachar
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history. -- Michael Phelps
Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising. -- Christopher Walken
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. -- Joan Didion
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood. -- Jo Nesbo
If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way. -- Avicii
If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path. -- Anders Holm
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances. -- Ernest Hemingway
The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them. -- Bruce Lipton
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side. -- Colm Toibin
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around. -- Louis Sachar
I can't rewrite history. -- Pattie Boyd
I don't want to rewrite history. -- Keith Fullerton Whitman
You can rewrite your personal story! -- Mary Buchan
Don't document bad code - rewrite it. -- Brian Kernighan
The curves of your lips rewrite history. -- Oscar Wilde
I can't. You can't rewrite the past. -- Jay Asher
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. -- Elmore Leonard
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever. -- Jenna Bush
I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived. -- David Bowie
A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses. -- S. Kelley Harrell
Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way. -- Robin G. Collingwood
. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do. -- Craig Lucas
I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks. -- Anne Perry
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. -- Stephen King
Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. -- John Steinbeck
I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat. -- Sean Durkin
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. -- Oscar Wilde
But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left. -- Suzanne Young
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. -- Helen Dunmore
Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. -- Paddy Ashdown
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. -- Joseph Heller
Our belief in our divinity will rewrite our life, and create it anew -- Masami Saionji
We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration. -- Kameron Hurley
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it. -- Susan Sontag
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) -- Eric S. Raymond
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion. -- Alessandro Baricco
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. -- Umberto Eco
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite -- William Goldman
A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws. -- John Cornyn
We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free. -- Morgan Parker
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. -- Marjorie Garber
The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body. -- Bruce H. Lipton
I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more. -- Laura Z. Hobson
Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst. -- Tamora Pierce
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. -- Holly Black
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind. -- Deepak Chopra
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. -- Douglas Tompkins
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. -- Elmore Leonard
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it." -- Tony Hillerman
Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won. -- Sabrina Jeffries
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. -- Margaret Mitchell
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work -- Gay Talese
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. -- Gay Talese
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. -- Kurt Loder
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. -- Oscar Wilde
Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy. -- William H. Macy
We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10 -- Lady Gaga
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. -- Stephen King
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. -- Ray Bradbury
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite. -- Joyce Carol Oates
A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it. -- William Faulkner
I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite. -- William H. Macy
Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good. -- Jamie Farr
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own. -- Demi Lovato
When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script. -- Kelly Marcel
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories. -- Jacqueline Woodson
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. -- Tana French
To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect. -- Daniel Coyle
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear. -- E. B. White
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. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh. -- Gary McCord
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. -- Jean Monnet
According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis. -- Brian Tracy
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. -- Hallie Ephron
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. -- Sam Altman
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. -- Terry Pratchett
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them. -- Harvey Fierstein
You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work. -- Jeff Daniels
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. -- Kevin Barry
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. -- Jeb Bush
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. -- Northrop Frye
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. -- Umberto Eco
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. -- Jodi Picoult
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. -- John Irving
You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing. -- Tony Grisoni
In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage. -- Rick Scarborough
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along. -- James L. Buckley
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. -- Andy Daly
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. -- Henry Louis Gates
As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them. -- Mandy Aftel
I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters. -- David Letterman
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. -- Frank Oz
My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite. -- Mike Birbiglia
Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity. -- Robert McKee

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