#rewriting

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#rewriting-history #beauty

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#back #even #every #feel #get

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

#enjoyable #existential #novel #panic #process

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

— David McCullough

#i #lumber #out #rewriting #trying

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it. ↗

— Jules Shear

#i #me #means #rewriting #rewritten

And then Franklin smote the ground and up rose George Washington, fully dressed and astride a horse! Then the three of them, Franklin, Washington and the HORSE, proceeded to win the entire revolution single handley! ↗

— John Adams

#rewriting-history #revolution

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on. ↗

— Michael Richards

#audience #camera #days #flying #front

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#coffee #master-of-the-mountain #rewriting-history #coffee

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

— Dan Brown

#rewriting-history #nature

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

— George Orwell

#propaganda #rewriting-history #understanding