History isn’t a tale told once, it’s a series of revisions.

“All those tales were told right here, one after the next, each informing the one that came after. History isn't a tale told once,…

— Victor LaValle

“You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.”

— Toba Beta

“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”

— Virgil

Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

— Anonymous

“If you are tempted to reveal A tale to you someone has told About another, make it pass, Before you speak, three gates of…

— Beth Day

Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere…

— Joseph Furphy

I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could…

— K. Flay

I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and…

— Alexandra Bracken

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…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start -…

— William Manchester

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

— Michael Longley

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

— Jonathan Franzen

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.

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Kelly Barnhill