Revising Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. — Chaim Potok
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble… — Chaim Potok
Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The MÃ©canique CÃ©leste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing… — Kelly Jones
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age.… — Megan McCafferty
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk, Jr.
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. — David S. Goyer
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. — Dean Koontz
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning… — Joyce Carol Oates
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over… — Erica Jong
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for… — Gregory Maguire
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the… — Chang-Rae Lee
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I… — Sara Shepard
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to… — Danielle Steel
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a… — Francine Prose
It is no surprise that many people resist the arduous effort involved in continually monitoring and revising their thinking... Yet if all the energy required… — M. Scott Peck

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