The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think in my mum's house, I still have my revision notes from my GCSE anthology book! — Jax Jones Copy Share Image
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own. — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation,… — Peter York Copy Share Image
The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry. — Lester Beall Copy Share Image
Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and… — Pamela Erens Copy Share Image
“Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate… — Molly Cochran Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted… — Akira Mori Copy Share Image
And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
“A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place… — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.” — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
