#rewrite

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#finishing #first #go #here #rewrite

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#down #every #go #like #novels

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#directors #everything #i #know #projects

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. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #him

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

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks. ↗

— Anne Perry

#did #i #pages #rewrite #two

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite. ↗

— William H. Macy

#i #rewrite #say #script #tendency

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work. ↗

— James Meade

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