Done Quote by Patricia Reilly Giff Download Open image “Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.” — Patricia Reilly Giff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Done Eight Heart Pages Revision Seven Writing
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'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
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule. — Jamaica Kincaid 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
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five… — Terry Pratchett 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 loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family. — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper.” — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special? — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.” — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is. — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side of life?… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing. — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“Don't be silly,” Linda said. “Emily knew all the time.” Emily pulled an old flowerpot out of her way. “Let's look for the box,”… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“The stakes are high. One sound before we escape and we’re stuck with our five-year-old brother, Steadman, for the rest of the morning. Steadman… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I always watch my matches back 100 times afterwards because that's how I improve. This is something I've always done, even in NXT. — Mandy Rose Copy Share Image
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