Revision Quote by Marianne Moore Download Open image “Revision is its own reward.” — Marianne Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Revision Rewards
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it. — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
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… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com)” — Christopher Lehman Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it. — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
