Quotes with rewriting

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• If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

  Bernie S. Siegel
  American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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• Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

  The Rules of Attraction (2010) 64

  Bret Easton Ellis
  American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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• Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

  (2006)

  Joan Didion
  American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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• The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

  Philip Roth
  American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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• When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

  Philip Roth
  American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• typographical
• constantly
• fifty-five
• especially
• typewriter
• computer

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