Famous Rewriting Quotes

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book
reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history. ~ Ann Coulter

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born. ~ Cathryn Louis

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. ~ Peter Murphy

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. ~ Ted Dekker

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting. ~ Michael Moorcock

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it. ~ Ray Bradbury

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair. ~ Robert Stone

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten. ~ Paul Engle

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story. ~ Roberta Gellis

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting ... Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. ~ Sol Stein

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point. ~ Joan Didion

The book really comes to life in the rewriting. ~ Philip Roth

Writing for me is largely about rewriting. ~ Khaled Hosseini

I don't want to be famous for being famous. ~ Kelli O'Hara

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay. ~ Kate DiCamillo

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

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ~ Van Morrison

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. ~ Saul Bellow

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

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it. ~ Barry N. Malzberg

Good writing is essentially rewriting. ~ Roald Dahl

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together. ~ Rebecca Stead

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. ~ Bo Burnham

But I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious. ~ Patrick DeWitt

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming. ~ Bill Gates

Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do. ~ Kate Beaton

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. ~ Peter Carey

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous. ~ Dallas Clayton

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame. ~ Johnathon Schaech

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't. ~ Trey Parker

Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you."
"I doubt it. ~ Madeline Miller

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. ~ Kurt Loder

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. ~ Noomi Rapace

I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's like gardening in the basement. I don't publish so much of what I write. I just seem to plow it back into the soil of what I write after it, rewriting and rewriting, thinking that somehow it gets better after the fifty-second-time around. I need to learn to abandon my writing. To let go of it. Dispose of it, like tissue. ~ J.R. Tompkins

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. ~ Dolph Lundgren

I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow. ~ Neil Gaiman

There is this power that comes with being famous. ~ Rod Stewart

For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting. ~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. ~ Rachel Sklar

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent. ~ Kat Dennings

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. ~ Charlie Kaufman

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director. ~ Andrew Lau

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. ~ Tom Felton

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing. ~ Jim Gaffigan

It was never about winning medals or being famous. ~ Nancy Kerrigan

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on. ~ Paul Reiser

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. ~ James Carville

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. ~ William Hurt

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself. ~ Vanessa Paradis

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. ~ Noel Gallagher

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say. ~ Richard Lewis

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience. ~ Claude Bowers

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. ~ Van Morrison

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing. ~ Ellen Pompeo

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me. ~ Helen Slater

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in ... ~ Scott Westerfeld

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere. ~ Francesca Annis

I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I've been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner. ~ Anne Hathaway

Quoting someone and rewriting their words makes it a quote from you and not them any longer. To change the meaning of someone's words without permission is offensive enough, to then contact the quoted person and try to justify it to them is even worse. It's verbatim or bust! ~ Stewart Stafford

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist

A lot of people are lost 2016 famous and non famous, relative and friends. A lot of people have also been lost in 2014 it's a fact! ~ Deyth Banger

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds. ~ Aberjhani

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous. ~ Logan Lerman

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom. ~ Roberto Cavalli

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame. ~ Joel McHale

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous. ~ Kim Weston

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous. ~ Bresha Webb

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s. ~ Irwin Winkler

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose. ~ Diablo Cody

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough. ~ Howard Stern

I never pursued being 'famous.' ~ Francesca Annis

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people. ~ Margot Kidder

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV. ~ Eileen Myles

[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions. ~ Rachel Carson

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous. ~ Ethan H. Minsker

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ~ John Irving

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story. ~ August Wilson

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. ~ Emir Kusturica

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? ~ Colin Hay

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.' ~ Missi Pyle

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

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous. ~ Dan Fogler

You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous. ~ Tamar Braxton

I don't like the idea of famous people. ~ Kristin Hersh

I don't see myself as a famous person. ~ Jess Glynne

You could become famous just for being, well, famous. ~ Terry Pratchett

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them. ~ Kristen Stewart

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for. ~ Rainn Wilson

Only traumatised people want to be famous. ~ Alanis Morissette

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely. ~ Shania Twain

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing. ~ Macy Gray

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result. ~ Lawrence Lessig

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard. ~ Willow Smith

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous. ~ John Carroll Lynch

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous ... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV. ~ Kim Shaw

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. ~ Aberjhani

I handle fame by not being famous ... I'm not famous to me. ~ Bob Marley