Revision Quotes
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The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.
— Hilma Wolitzer
I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.
— Kiese Laymon
We write while sleepwalking and revise when awake.
— Marty Rubin
Half my life is an act of revision.
— John Irving
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.
— Terry Tempest Williams
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
— Stanislav Grof
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
— Stanislav Grof
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
— Barrett Wendell
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All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
— Bernard Malamud
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
— Tracy Kidder
A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.
— Howard Mittelmark
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
— Marvin Bell
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
— Ivica Dacic
Revision is a good impulse to have.
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.
— Hillary Clinton
After all, experiencing something is not the same as remembering it. A memory is by its nature a revision.
— Jan Ellison
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
— Jamaica Kincaid
Writing fiction is: Imagination and structure first and foremost - then revision, revision, revision! Then, revision!
— Will Ottinger
Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.
— Siri Hustvedt
The writer's life is a life of revisions.
— Jonathan Franzen
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
— Romulus Linney
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.
— Laurence Overmire
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
— John Irving
I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution.
— Francois Hollande
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
— Michael Longley
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
— William Faulkner
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
— Ambrose Bierce
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.
— Sheila Kaye-Smith
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
— Benjamin Cardozo
This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.
— Ellen Gallagher
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
— Will Shetterly
Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.
— Buffy Andrews
Revision is its own reward.
— Marianne Moore
The process of revision should be constant and endless
— Salman Rushdie
God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is the Eve of Division; It is the Dawn of Revision. We did not come here to lose. We did not come here to be divided.
— Mark Donnelly
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
— Katherine Paterson
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.
— Richard Branson
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
— Samuel E. Morison
People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.
— Neal Stephenson
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
— Steven Pressfield
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
— Patricia Reilly Giff
The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.
— Lester Beall
Why aren't the thinks I'm thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!?
— Christopher Lehman
