Revising Quotes

Revising Quote of the day

Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it as an opportunity to improve something you already love.

Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.