Rewrite Quotes

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. (Oscar Wilde)
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. View quote
Umberto Eco
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. View quote
Michael Crichton
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history. View quote
Jennifer Beals
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself. View quote
John Dos Passos
I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference. View quote
Nigel Farage
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. View quote
Elmore Leonard
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. View quote
Stephen King
If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy. (Gianfranco Fini)
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets. View quote
Michael J. Sandel
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril. View quote
Eric A. Havelock
Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there. View quote
Ronald Reagan
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. View quote
Peter Straub
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. View quote
Piers Paul Read
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. View quote
Harlan Coben
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up. View quote
Bill Joy
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. View quote
Bill Cosby
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying. View quote
Ken Follett
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh. (Gary McCord)
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.' View quote
John Sayles
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. View quote
Kurt Loder
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself. View quote
Kathy Mattea
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. View quote
Marilyn Hacker