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1. "Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis."
Author: Austin O'Malley

2. "Standing idly by to comment on events does far more for the world than the occurrence of them. That is why everyone rewrites history, but no one reads anything past the myths that made up the first edition."
Author: Bauvard

3. "And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites."
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. "I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter."
Author: Francine Pascal

5. "It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket."
Author: Glen Duncan

6. "Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes."
Author: John Podhoretz

7. "Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run."
Author: Josh Gates

8. "If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility."
Author: Paul Graham

9. "The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am."
Author: Shannon Hale

10. "Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list."
Author: Terry Brooks

11. "As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."
Author: Tom Skerritt