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
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or… — Kevin Keck 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
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as… — Stanley Fischer Copy Share Image
I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings...… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times. — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream? — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
After Ive 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
I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
I'm repledging myself to human-scale values. As a fiction writer, the best data comes through the senses and is then processed through… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing… — Pamela Erens Copy Share Image
“Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer.… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
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