One must always revise, To remove all disguise , The body may fall, The soul always rise !!!! — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“You can fix just about any problem in your writing, but you cannot revise a blank page.” — Gabriela Pereira Copy Share Image
Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“If you say bullshit on things come in handy, better revise it before others say otherwise.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“If you don't listen to the question entirely, then you are going to revise your answers frequently.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Shall I revise or rewrite My October Symphony? ...and change the dedication from Revolution to Revelation? – Pet Shop Boys” — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book.… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to… — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole,… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“If you struggle making people knowing Jesus, then you better revise your actions.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. — John Irving Copy Share Image
In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
