Rewriter Quotes

#1. I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Gore Vidal

#2. I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

James A. Michener

#3. I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

Paddy Chayefsky

#4. I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best ... once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

Judy Blume

#5. Sofia fought with me throughout the book and I had to rewriter her three times to get it right.

Holly S. Roberts

#6. Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable.

Jim Rash

#7. I like the rain; it brings your fragrance everywhere and the nature smells your aroma.

M.F. Moonzajer

#8. If this generation doesn't end ...
then change towards a better one will be delayed.

Toba Beta

#9. Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Jean Cocteau

#10. Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

James C. Snyder

#11. It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

Matthew Henry

#12. Love is a battle lost before even begun.

Frederic Beigbeder

#13. Know that mumblings and pleadings are far from meaningless for if they come from the heart they are, in fact, prayers.

Olive Rose Steele

#14. And that sort of victimization narrative is something we shouldn't contribute to. On the other hand, we have to acknowledge that there is a radical element in Islam, jihadism, that needs to be called by name and needs to be confronted.

Marco Rubio

#15. I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

Jeff Cooper

#16. I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

Norman Lock