Revision Quotes

Revision Quote of the day

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

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.

In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

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.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

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.

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

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.

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.