Revision Quotes

102 quotes by 89 authors

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle. — Steven Pressfield
[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you… — Rachel Carson
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development.… — Pope Benedict XVI
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision. — Christian Nestell Bovee
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the… — Stanislav Grof
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they… — Mary Douglas
Half my life is an act of revision. — John Irving
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of… — Jonathan Kozol
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in… — T.E. Lawrence
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. — Bernard Malamud
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a… — Joyce Carol Oates
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some… — George Saunders
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to… — Vikram Seth
When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart… — Evgeny Morozov
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream? — Katherine Paterson
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means… — Voltairine de Cleyre
history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills… — Janet Fitch
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not… — Dan Brown

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