#rewriting

There is no great writing, only great rewriting. ↗

And then Franklin smote the ground and up rose George Washington, fully dressed and astride a horse! Then the three of them, Franklin, Washington and the HORSE, proceeded to win the entire revolution single handley! ↗

— John Adams

#rewriting-history #revolution

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

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

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

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

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

— Jules Shear

#i #me #means #rewriting #rewritten

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

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. ↗