I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything. — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it. — Dhirubhai Ambani Copy Share Image
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne 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 don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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 a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More… — John Dos Passos 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 love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising… — Charles Faulkner Copy Share Image
When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain 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
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 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
“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
Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
“Practicality requires that we stop somewhere in the process, but nothing actually says we can't keep on writing and revising. In fact,… — Ralph L. Wahlstrom Copy Share Image
I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so… — Gichin Funakoshi 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
“When my first draft of a novel is done, I put it away, warts and all, to mellow. Some period of time… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of… — Felix Adler 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
My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my… — David Biespiel 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
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
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four… — Gail Tsukiyama 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
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 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
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. — David S. Goyer 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
