Quotes About Rewriting The Past

#1. What Tengo would have to do, it seemed, was take a hard, honest look at the past while standing at the crossroads of the present. Then he could create a future, as thought he were rewriting the past.It was the only way

Haruki Murakami

#2. Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

Philippe Kahn

#3. This was what was wonderful, standing alone in the big, soft night rewriting the past to make myself miss what had never been. Now that it was over, I could turn the past into anything I wanted.

Susanna Kaysen

#4. As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths.

Haruki Murakami

#5. He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.

Anne Fortier

#6. But I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

Patrick DeWitt

#7. I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. It's like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

Caroline Leavitt

#8. There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

Louis D. Brandeis

#9. True love is a fairy tale, which can be transformed into reality by rewriting each chapter by hearing the whispers of each other's heart, by believing in those whispers and absorbing the aches that lie within.

Balroop Singh

#10. That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

Tim Tharp

#11. Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

Jami Attenberg

#12. Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant.

Mary J. Miller

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

Kate DiCamillo

#14. 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

#15. The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

Michael Moorcock

#16. Nobody told all the new computer writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they're writing fluently doesn't mean they're writing well.

William Zinsser

#17. Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book
reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

Ann Coulter

#18. Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Roald Dahl

#19. In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.

James Patterson

#20. On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Alan Moore

#21. Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.

Nora DeLoach

#22. Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work.

Elizabeth Strout

#23. History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.

Claude Bowers

#24. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

#25. By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

Terry Pratchett

#26. Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

Cathryn Louis

#27. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Dan Brown

#28. I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

David McCullough

#29. The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

Saul Bellow

#30. Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

Tom Stoppard

#31. Writing is rewriting.

Alan Winter

#32. I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

Jim Gaffigan

#33. Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.

Scott Westerfeld

#34. Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

Larry L. King

#35. There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

Susan Bell

#36. I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out the first draft very quickly. I can do it in five to six weeks. Then, it takes a year of rewriting it and rewriting it.

Eran Creevy

#37. I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.

Walter Ciszek

#38. During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were thinking about, and it informs a rewriting of a scene.

Joe Swanberg

#39. All writing is rewriting.

John Green

#40. Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

Roberta Gellis

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

Cherise Sinclair

#42. The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt ...

William F. Buckley Jr.

#43. Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

Ed Koch

#44. When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Robert Louis Stevenson