“This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect.”
“Good stories are not written, they are rewritten”
“Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!”
“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
“Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.”
“I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”