Revision Quote by Marianne Moore

Revision is a good impulse to have.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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

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

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

— Romulus Linney

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

— May Sarton

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

— Will Shetterly

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

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

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

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

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