Impulse Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez Download Open image “Revision is a good impulse to have.” — Rigoberto Gonzalez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Impulse Revision
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
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant. — Will Shetterly 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
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
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
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation — May Sarton 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 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'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could… — K. Flay 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
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
I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail.… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“I look through the window at the huge valley lit up with different colors. The town is cradled by the dark mountains. From afar… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Funerals in México are also about drowning sorrow with liquor. The coffee is spiked with tequila” — Rigoberto González Copy Share Image
I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do,… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image