Rewriting Quotes – City of Quotes

Tom Stoppard

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

Vicki Lawrence

Rewriting isn’t just about dialogue; it’s the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

Tom Stoppard

Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.

August Wilson

I get up to write while it’s still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the day before, and that gives some momentum for the day.

Michael Connelly

It’s a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that’s a writerly thing.

Emma Healey

I’m not someone who comes onstage and says, ‘I’m rewriting this now.’ I don’t think it’s fair to the writers or the director, or the other actors.

Kevin Bacon

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

Laura Marling

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books – and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

Philip Roth

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Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I’d had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

Rewriting isn’t just about dialogue; it’s the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.

I get up to write while it’s still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the day before, and that gives some momentum for the day.

It’s a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that’s a writerly thing.

I’m not someone who comes onstage and says, ‘I’m rewriting this now.’ I don’t think it’s fair to the writers or the director, or the other actors.

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books – and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.