Rewrite Your Story Quotes

#1. If life hands you some crappy chapters. . . then rewrite your story.

Ireland Gill

#2. We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?

Ellen DeGeneres

#3. I don't get to rewrite my story; I just have to stumble to the end of it.

Jodi Picoult

#4. When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Stephen King

#5. That I want nothing more than to put you on your back, on this table, and show you what it's like to really get fucked.

Karina Halle

#6. When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

Stephen King

#7. Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Right now each of us is a private oral culture. We rewrite our pasts to suit our needs and support the story we tell about ourselves. With our memories we are all guilty of a Whig interpretation of our personal histories, seeing our former selves as steps toward our glorious present selves.

Ted Chiang

#9. It doesn't take long in marriage bedore you realize that your spouse doesn't share your instincts. At that point, either you worship God as sovereign and celebrate the different way of looking at the world that your spouse has blessed you with, or you dishonor him by trying to rewrite his story.

Paul David Tripp

#10. Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Demi Lovato

#11. I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.

Dylan O'Brien

#12. "Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#13. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.

Kathryn Perez

#14. We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

Kameron Hurley

#15. The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the rules. Or bend them. The story doesn't have to end. You can stay in this world, this world you love, as long as you want, as long as you keep thinking of new stories.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

Stephen King

#17. Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Steve Martin

#18. Your principal concern appears to be that the creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked.

Sam Harris

#19. Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.

Henry Louis Gates

#20. America, it has been observed, is not really a melting pot. It is actually a huge potluck dinner, in which platters of roasted chicken beckon beside casseroles of pasta, mounds of tortillas, stew pots of gumbo, and skillets filled with pilafs of every imaginable color.

Andrea Chesman

#21. Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. I hope it won't rain," Lily said, feeling very shy all of a sudden. Caleb turned and smiled at her. "Whatever happens, Lily," he said, "I'll take care of you." Soon

Linda Lael Miller

#23. Resistance to change is our fine ability to create reasons to crib and criticize.

Sukant Ratnakar

#24. There is no satisfaction in eternity,' she said. 'There is only loss.

Elizabeth Fama

#25. I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Indu Muralidharan

#26. You can rewrite your personal story!

Mary Buchan

#27. When I fall in love... it's only... one time. -Luka

Hotaru Odagiri

#28. If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#29. Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.

Emeril Lagasse

#30. I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending.

J.C. Lillis

#31. Don't apologize. Don't explain. Don't ever feel less than. When you feel the need to apologize or explain who you are, it means the voice in your head is telling you the wrong story. Wipe the slate clean. And rewrite it.

Shonda Rhimes

#32. I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

Sherwood Anderson

#33. I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

Louis Sachar

#34. When fairness disappears from the public discuss of any nation, when partiality replaces impartiality, God begins to look

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