Connections Quote by Dana Spiotta

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does…

— Jacques Barzun

I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways…

— Claudia Rankine

In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations…

— John Dufresne

For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you…

— Dana Spiotta

Revision is a good impulse to have.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then…

— Dan Mangan

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from…

— Eric Cantona

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

— Will Shetterly

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our…

— Dinty W. Moore

“It's very, very subtle stuff, changing words and giving them a whole different meaning—it creates an artificial reality," said Walter. "What happens is this…

— Janet Reitman

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

— Ramesh S Balsekar

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence…

— Michael Cunningham