Revision Quotes

102 Revision quotes by 89 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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. — Unknown Author
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
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is… — Julius Wellhausen
This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. — Ellen Gallagher
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation — May Sarton
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a… — Laurent Fabius
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times. — Patricia Reilly Giff
This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the… — Laurent Fabius
The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry. — Lester Beall
Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the… — Stephen Jay Gould
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when… — George Saunders

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