#rewriting

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#beautiful thing #down #editor #get #hand

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber. ↗

— David McCullough

#i #lumber #out #rewriting #trying

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#after #done #editing #input #lot

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

#i #kind #life #maybe #me

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

— Jules Shear

#i #me #means #rewriting #rewritten

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. ↗

— Ruggero Leoncavallo

#carried #composition #down #even #find

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#belief #rewriting-history #sherlock-holmes #belief

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. ↗

— Dan Brown

#rewriting-history #nature

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#writing #nature

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ↗