Welcome to Rewrite Quotes, where the power of words meets creative expression! Quotes have a unique ability to encapsulate profound thoughts, emotions, and insights in just a few words. They serve as timeless reminders of wisdom, motivation, and inspiration, resonating with individuals across cultures and generations. However, while the essence of a quote remains unchanged, its presentation can undergo a transformation, breathing new life into familiar words.
Here, we invite you to explore the art of rewriting quotes a practice that allows you to reinterpret, reimagine, and reinvent timeless wisdom to suit your unique style and purpose. Whether you seek to add a personal touch, enhance visual appeal, or simply experiment with different formats, our collection of quotes provides a canvas for your creativity. From classic literature to contemporary thinkers, our diverse selection encompasses a wide range of themes and perspectives, ensuring there’s something for everyone.
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I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it. Matt Ridley
Tax reform likely will be the first policy action in a Trump administration. A close second will be a thorough repeal and rewrite of Obamacare, restoring a freer market with true consumer choice and competition among providers. Lawrence Kudlow
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer. Joyce Carol Oates
When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It’s a permanent making or remaking. Pawel Pawlikowski
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency. Joyce Carol Oates
If I wanted to make a quick buck, there’s far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won’t be remembered the same way. Avicii
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
As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one – that’s how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that ‘text,’ tinker with traits – play God, some would say. Gregory Benford
I did three or four weeks of work on ‘Godzilla;’ it wasn’t a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is ‘script doctoring,’ is what I did on it. David S. Goyer
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along. James L. Buckley
We’ve always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write ‘A Little Nightmare Music,’ to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage. Aleksey Igudesman
What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft. Maury Yeston
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them. George W. Bush
We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they’re too big to fail. John Kennedy
No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people’s code is invaluable as well. Brian Kernighan
Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export. Bernie Sanders
I’m sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I’m useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft. Hallie Ephron
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
Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it. Michael Crichton
I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it. Patrick Ness
Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece. Vanessa Bayer
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. Jean Monnet
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite. Chuck Palahniuk
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
I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and ‘Little Women’ was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it’s such a sad book in so many ways. I’d cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings. Helen Oyeyemi
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that’s fine; you only need to get it right once. Tana French
A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies. Michael Douglas
I don’t find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do… it doesn’t work. Ruth Rendell
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows – maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them. Harvey Fierstein
President Obama is in violation of Section 3 of Article II of the Constitution by refusing to enforce the employer mandate provisions of Obamacare. The executive branch, which has no constitutional authority to write or rewrite law at whim, has usurped the exclusive legislative power of Congress. Scott Garrett
I’ve rewritten a lot of the scripts I’ve done. ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ was a complete rewrite, but I didn’t touch the dialogue. Essentially, I’m a very good editor. Frank Oz
Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does. Jonathan Maberry
I don’t really revise. I tend to rewrite. Akhil Sharma
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
When I write something, I constantly rewrite. Nia Vardalos
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
I really – I don’t take my work that seriously, and I think that’s what keeps me loose. If I try to write, if I catch myself trying to write, I’ll fall right on my face. I’ll see it. If I see in the prose that I’m – ‘Boy, look at me writing,’ I rewrite it. I rewrite it because I don’t, because I think it’s distracting. Elmore Leonard
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read. John Irving
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In ‘Holes,’ I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around. Louis Sachar
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I’m teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. Marilyn Hacker
I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of ‘The New York Times.’ It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread. Allan Gurganus
By the time I got to the point where I was ‘starring’ in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn’t for me. I’m really not an actor. I’m a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody’s precious words work. Rick Moranis
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. Harlan Coben
Quite often, I’ll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I’ll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising. Christopher Walken
I didn’t want ‘BSG’ to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who’s hiding out in the corner. Michael Trucco
I don’t find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. Ruth Rendell
The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh. Brad Paisley
To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them. Dito Montiel
There have been times when I reread – or at least leafed through – something because I’d sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. Peter Straub
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh. Gary McCord
I’ve been shocked by film actors – 25 and under – having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It’s all about yielding. It’s an oddly submissive relationship in which you’re moulded, Pygmalion-style. Anne-Marie Duff
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it’s based on is whether it’s good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it. Chuck Klosterman
With neoliberalism discredited and austerity failed, we need to rewrite the rules of the economy once again. But this time in the right way. We need rules that focus on long-term economic growth, and the only kind of sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity. Joseph Stiglitz
There are always people screeching and upset that I did this or didn’t do that. Basically, they’re upset that I didn’t rewrite an earlier book they particularly liked. Diana Gabaldon
In the ongoing effort to combat Ebola, more needs to be done to rewrite the public-health narrative. It must move from one that has been infused with fear to one that recognizes the hope for survival that supportive care can offer infected people. Joanne Liu
I don’t know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything. Lana Wachowski
With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter. John C. Mather
So, you know, when I think of survival as a creative act, it’s not trying to plaster over the isolation or to, you know, rewrite your predicament into something positive with a happy ending or some kind of neat resolution. It’s writing into the unknown. Suleika Jaouad
Six years after I wrote the first draft of ‘Plan B,’ I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer’s Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me. Lisa Lutz
For Cantonese – because there’s no standardized pinyin system – I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin. Daniel Wu
There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you’re really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can’t do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play. Gael Garcia Bernal
Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public, fueling a furious competition among the news services to rewrite them for their subscribers during their window of exclusivity. Alex Berenson
I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done. Chad Kelly
I’m interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes. Lenny Abrahamson
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I’m a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting. Nile Rodgers
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you’re looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need. Harlan Coben
If you want to build an open source project, you can’t let your ego stand in the way. You can’t rewrite everybody’s patches, you can’t second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control. Rasmus Lerdorf
And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite. Kurt Loder
I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it’s kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history. Michael Phelps
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 did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks. Anne Perry
Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they’ve animated more stuff – they usually videotape you while you’re reading it – so they’ll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it. John Goodman
We can’t let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Madison Cawthorn
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: ‘We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,’ and when you ask what’s left, they say: ‘Well, the typing is very good.’ John Sayles
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That’s a big one, the napping on demand! Maria Semple
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. Bill Cosby
The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It’s an idea that turns us into victims. I’m saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them. Bruce Lipton
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You’re grateful for these different chances. Ernest Hemingway
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours. Kevin Barry
Anyone who tells you they don’t need to rewrite, they’re usually the ones who need it worst. Tamora Pierce
Basically, we used to have a rule at ‘Saturday Night Live’ that you’re not allowed to bring up ‘The Simpsons’ at the rewrite table, because ‘The Simpsons’ has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, ‘The Simpsons did that.’ I go, ‘C’mon.’ And ‘South Park,’ too. Adam McKay
So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it’s terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they’re very upset because you didn’t like it. I went through that for seven years. Salma Hayek
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys’ club. Ryan Holmes
I’m not patient at all. I avoid writer’s block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I’ve gotten to the next scene, I’ll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path. Anders Holm
It is easier to rewrite anything – even the worst writing in the world – than it is to write something from scratch. Antony Johnston
You don’t want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else’s words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you’re writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later. Gayle Lynds
In Islam, the word of the Prophet is final. No true Muslim can disown these verses or say that they would rewrite the offensive verses of the Koran. If they do, then they would have to run for their lives. Subramanian Swamy
In my office I have a sign that says, ‘Don’t think. Just write!’ and that’s how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times. David A. Adler
I can’t rewrite history. Pattie Boyd
You have to write badly to write at all. If it’s crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself. Kathy Mattea
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It’s a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you’ll get there. Wendelin Van Draanen
I won’t rewrite on set, but I’ll just trim the fat. Sean Durkin
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. Maria Semple
In so many instances, there has been an attempt to rewrite history. And many times, on photographs, Martin and I were marching together, hand in hand; they cropped the photographs and left me out. Ralph Abernathy
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
I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite ‘Gone with the Wind,’ but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn’t me. Karin Slaughter
I can create institutions, but I can’t rewrite the chips in people’s heads. Paddy Ashdown
I do think – as self-serving as it sounds – that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company. Howard Schultz
Here’s the secret to finishing that first book. Don’t rewrite as you go. Laurell K. Hamilton
The problem is once you’ve written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there’s nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side. Colm Toibin