Revision Quotes

102 quotes by 90 authors

The writerâ€™s life is a life of revisions. — Jonathan Franzen
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute… — Patricia J. Williams
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions. — Donald Hall
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to… — Joseph Pulitzer
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology. — Stanislav Grof
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things — Rita Dove
Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as two… — Stanley Fischer
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic… — Siri Hustvedt
According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what… — Daniel Yergin
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow, — Laurence Overmire
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write… — Natalie Goldberg
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means,… — Hans Frank
It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step toward eliminating many… — John F. Kennedy
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work. — Tracy Kidder
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day… — Jack Kerouac
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its… — Jacques Monod
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. — Katherine Paterson
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision… — Russell Kirk

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