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#rewriting

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When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.


Michael Richards


#audience #camera #days #flying #front

When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was satisfied. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that spontaneous eloquence seemed like a miracle and that he rewrote every word he ever published, and often several times. And Mark Strand, former poet laureate, says that each of his poems sometimes goes through forty to fifty drafts before it is finished.


Susan M. Tiberghien


#writing #art

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.


Cherise Sinclair


#coffee #master-of-the-mountain #rewriting-history #coffee

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


Kate DiCamillo


#anything #ended #i #know #rewriting

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.


Joan Didion


#back #even #every #feel #get

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


Rose Tremain


#enjoyable #existential #novel #panic #process

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#already #books #busy #first #first time

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


Tony Gilroy


#behind #coming #i #like #never

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.


Alan Dean Foster


#bad #bored #get #hard #i

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






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