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As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.
Revise. Revisit. Reinvent.
I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.
And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.
The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.
I'm the one who still needs rewriting. Don't we all?
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.
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.
Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.
Formatting is no substitute for writing.
Edit your author as you would be edited.
All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
this word needs to be reworded ==========
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
There's only one absolute rule in writing: None of us gets it right the first time. Revise, reverse, reinvent, re-vision.
A short story is simplification to the highest degree
I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
Every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged
Getting published is a matter of luck. The more we rewrite, the luckier we get.
Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.
To be a self rewritten from a lost first draft.
No need ror quotion marks
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Mort moved my ending to the beginning, took out all the adjectives, cut the whole thing in half, and made it one hundred percent better.
'That's how it's done,' he said. Best writing lesson I ever had.
Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.
Translating is writing.
I've left it unedited, which means you'll get to see the [brackets] I insert to remind myself to research things or fix things later. In this case, I fixed things by writing a different story.
Simple is the only way I can write.
I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel.
Writing is a game of hits and misses. Throw out the hits and keep the misses.
I have rewritten - often several times - every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!
I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.
I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.
For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white.
Write the way you want to, not the way you think you should.
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
if you may edit, edit yourself
Her face was as red as her hair. "What are you doing," she cried.
Devon put a question mark next to the sentence. "Editing your paper." What did it look like he was doing?
"You're just cutting out stuff!"
"What do you think editing is?
There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Trying to straighten the question mark!
someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.
I reread? A lie! I don't dare reread. I can't reread. What good would it do me to reread? The person in the writing is someone else. I no longer understand a thing ...
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
[I wrote] '...letters designed to hide behind.
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.
The writer's life is a life of revisions.
I feel like an overwritten paragraph.
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful.
To be honest, I rewrote 'Wicked Nights' a number of times. I just wasn't happy with the end result.
When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.
I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
I know this is my signature move, but it really does read much better in the original.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.
The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
I reframed the situation
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.
Editing is the essence of writing!
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
You can't rewrite the past
We loved all the words in your manuscript, but we were wondering if you could maybe put them in a completely different order." Dave Coverly
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers
Writing's in the nouns.
I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.
The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.
When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.
Simplicate, and add lightness!
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
I will omit but I will not distort.
Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.
Redefine the possible.
If at first you don't succeed, write, rewrite again.
I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.
In true prose everything must be underlined.
That's not writing, that's typing.
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.
ripped the paper
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130)
Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
The simplest tool of the writer is repetition ... The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.
Awareness is the first step in rewriting old stories.
The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning.
A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'
Story is about originality, not duplication
What I don't write is as important as what I write.