I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow, — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural. — Laurie Halse Anderson 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
I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers… — Cate Marvin 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
The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different… — Samantha Hunt 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
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period… — Mary Blakely 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
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
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
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King 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
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
