#rewriting

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

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. ↗

— George Orwell

#propaganda #rewriting-history #understanding

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#rewriting-history #beauty

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

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

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