Writing Revision Quotes
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Writing Revision Quotes & Sayings
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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
I am looking for a future for myself. I like to hear about the possibilities of others.
— Kathryn Stockett
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.
— Joan Silber
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
— Barrett Wendell
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
— Bernard Malamud
The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
— Milan Kundera
Why aren't the thinks I'm thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!?
— Christopher Lehman
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
Writing fiction is: Imagination and structure first and foremost - then revision, revision, revision! Then, revision!
— Will Ottinger
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
— Patricia Reilly Giff
We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.
— Johnnie Cochran
Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.
— Buffy Andrews
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
— Will Shetterly
It's tiny out there ... it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.
— William Anders
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
— Terry Eagleton
I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.
— Anatoli Boukreev
Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.
— Mickey Drexler
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
— William Faulkner
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.
— Frank Tuttle