Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it. — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready… — John Green Copy Share Image
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com)” — Christopher Lehman Copy Share Image
I want the Eurobond, a 20 per cent devalued euro for southern European countries, protecting our products against those arriving from abroad,… — Beppe Grillo Copy Share Image
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision.… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a fresh perspective is all you need to get a second wind on the revision process. Try viewing your material on… — V.S. Watson Copy Share Image
After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive… — John Dufresne 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
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We have a moment of pure creative inspiration — writing or drawing or sculpting — and it feels exhilarating in the moment.… — Courtney Martin Copy Share Image
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume… — Dale Dauten Copy Share Image
Remember that "needing" something to change will always flow negative energy and hold it to you. Finding a way to become excited… — Lynn Grabhorn Copy Share Image
Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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