To write is human; to revise is divine!

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really…

— Kelly Link

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you…

— Michael Korda

I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more…

— Maximillian Degenerez

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

— Albert Einstein

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

— Benjamin Cohen

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine,…

— Mandy Aftel

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed…

— E. L. Doctorow

SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the…

— Margaret Chan

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

— Alison Lurie

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…

— Ellen Hunnicutt

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's…

— Peter Orner

I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'

— Wendy Long

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

— John Dufresne

“I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the details, see…

— John Dufresne

“And then after that, I guess it just became habit that they didn’t. It seemed like people could revise who you were very quickly,…

— Anonymous