My time Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image “I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare My time Spend Time Written
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. — Mike Rutherford Copy Share Image
I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100% — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music. — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there… — Michael Strahan Copy Share Image
I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money,… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
My time with my father would be very meaningful, but also very short. — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial… — RZA Copy Share Image
