“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.” — Patricia Fuller Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over. — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
“The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.” — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
“Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.” — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full… — Virgil Suarez Copy Share Image
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, I virtually memorized my paperback editions, greedy for insider tips about the literary life. Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner, Colette,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
[While designing] I'm mixing two lines of thought really: me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke… — Ted Solotaroff 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 think about how I conceptualize the audience. The trick is that they've got to be smarter and more worldly than me.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve sat at my kitchen table working on these pages, been interrupted by… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
![“[While designing] I'm mixing two lines of thought really: me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At the start of the design process it's the designer for women that comes to the forefront - sketching and revising the silhouette. Then the man comes into the picture - and I look at the…” quote by Christian Louboutin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4b/christian-louboutin-1690_conflict_while-designing-i-m-mixing-two-lines-of_449480.jpg)
