Revising Quotes
37 quotes by 34 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will…
— Antonya Nelson
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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
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Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it.
— Dhirubhai Ambani
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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
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The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information,…
— Jeff Bezos
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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
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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
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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
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I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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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
Who Wrote These Revising Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 37 Revising Quotes, led by these top contributors: