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

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.
Kurt Loder

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

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
Anne Perry

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
Larry Wachowski

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

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 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 used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
Jonathan Franzen

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese

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

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

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

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

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
George W. Bush

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

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
Ken Follett