Books Quote by Tama Janowitz

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 one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same…

— Toni Morrison

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

— Donald Hall

“I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and…

— Libba Bray

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

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start -…

— William Manchester

Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

— Michael Longley

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

— Jonathan Franzen

“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.”

— Kelly Barnhill

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