Revising Quotes
37 Revising quotes by 33 unique authors
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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
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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.
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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
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
— Dean Koontz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Revising Quotes
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