All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major… — Irma S. Rombauer Copy Share Image
My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart… — Jonathan King Copy Share Image
Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
“While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
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