Revision Quotes

Revision is a good impulse to have.

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Revision is its own reward.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.

Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.

Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com)

That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.