Revising Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;… — Stephen King
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. — John Dos Passos
Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make… — Gichin Funakoshi
Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it as… — Marion Dane Bauer
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with… — Hugh Prather
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom… — Virgil Suarez
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a… — Stephen King
Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time instead of giving… — Melissa Rosenberg
If the book is finishedâ€”published and on the shelfâ€”I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will… — Antonya Nelson
Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically… — Charles Bates
Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it. — Dhirubhai Ambani
For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising their thinking and… — Charles Faulkner
The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought theyâ€™d already solved. Theyâ€™re open to new points of view, new information,… — Jeff Bezos
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising… — Li-Young Lee
I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of… — Nick D'Aloisio
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written. — Joyce Carol Oates
I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the… — Elizabeth Sims

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