(20 quotes found)
“I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.”
Gore Vidal
“When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.”
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
James A. Michener
“Our customer service team says CD-RW discs do not have an infinite rewrite lifespan and can only be erased and rewritten so many times. It may be wise for your reader to try a new CD-RW disk.”
Chris Taylor
“It looks like they are going to ask developers to have to rewrite applications to use some of the features of the new system. If I'm a developer with a limited budget and am told I'm going to have to make major changes, or even minor changes, to my applications to keep up with Apple's operating system, I'm probably going to write for Windows and not for Mac.”
Dan Kusnetzky
“Even Preston Sturges wouldn't dare to rewrite a Preston Sturges script.”
Eddie Bracken
“Once again, I believe that Netscape either is attempting to rewrite history or deliberately misled me and my colleagues during our June 1995 discussions.”
Daniel Rosen
“Mount Rainier offers drag and drop CD rewriting and on-the-fly formatting of the disc, making the CD the ideal floppy disk replacement.”
Frank Simonis
“At some point, you have to stop merging applications and rewrite them.”
Morris Cohen
“I told him, as long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story. Instead of just talking to a writer, you can write the story.”
Reggie Jackson