“ A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies. ”
- Michael Douglas- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. ”
- Pete Murphy- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars… ”
- August Wilson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged… I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
- 507
“ It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people… ”
- John Henrik Clarke- Copy
- 2.2K
“ But all my other novels - before Freya - I wrote at a rate of five thousand words every day for around twenty days, at the end of which I'd have a 100k manuscript - and feel wrecked. Then I leave it fore a while and come back a month or so later and edit, cut, rewrite. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I felt I had almost written myself into a corner. You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then the movie, had by then also created a commercial expectation and I remember touring America and seeing people in the audiences who I thought might not want to read the books I wanted to write next… ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
- 1.7K
- 1