Rewrite Quotes

“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ("Into a new life")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

“Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.”
― Ryan Lilly

“I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives.”
― V.C. Andrews

“Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, A Dangerous Love

“It takes one person to rewrite the history book.”
― J.R. Rim

“You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.”
― V.T. Davy, Black Art

“You are the author of your own life story. You have the leading role and get to determine how you interact with your supporting cast and other characters. Without realizing it, you may have allowed the events in your life to write your story for you rather than taking deliberate action to write it in your own voice. What will it take to love your life story to create the happy endings you desire?”
― Susan C. Young

“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”
― Ted Solotaroff

“Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.”
― Sandra E. Lamb

“If our commitment to an agenda is so passionate that we will rewrite the history that does not support it, we have become a blind slave to a rogue agenda that will destroy us in the service of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.”
― Kameron Hurley, Rapture

“No, no,” Evie said. “People won’t pay to see such a poor excuse for a climax. We need a rewrite.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Forgiveness brilliantly rewrites the script that we’ve penned to process the pain and betrayal of our histories. And while such a rewrite does not change history itself, it changes everything about our history.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We're programmers. Programmers are, in their hearts, architects, and the first thing they want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We're not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds.

There's a subtle reason why programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming:

It's harder to read code than to write it.”
― Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software

“You can rewrite your personal story!”
― Mary Buchan, Over iT

“Never let grammar get in the way of poetry.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“Our brains allow us to adapt and change -- to write and rewrite who we are.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“If 't be true mine own w'rds w're gold, then thy ears wouldst beest smelting pots and thy mind a mis'r. Or if 't be true thee hath found mine own w'rds base, then an alchemist beest.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We are fooled by the winners because the winners can rewrite history.”
― David Lockwood

“Besides, didn't you read Romeo and Juliet? 'For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.'"
Her lips widened into a coquettish smile. "It's hopeless. We can never work out. We're star-crossed lovers."
He laughed and grinned. He liked her sass. He walked to her side and cautiously brushed a lock of hair off her delicate shoulders. "Let's do a rewrite.”
― Alana Quintana Albertson, Ramón and Julieta

“It's one thing that happened, not the only thing.”
― Brooke Lea Foster, Summer Darlings

“Embrace the New Year with a mind as boundless as the universe itself; for within you resides a genius that, when rocket launched toward destiny, can rewrite the stars.”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“Don't be afraid to rewrite your story; you hold the pen.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free