Rewrite Quotes
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Oscar Wilde -
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
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Oscar Wilde -
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
George Bernard Shaw -
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 -
I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.
Sean Durkin -
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
Margaret Mitchell -
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
William Faulkner
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If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
Elizabeth Lesser -
I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process.
Steven Soderbergh -
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.
Emily Barton -
I don't want to rewrite history.
Keith Fullerton Whitman