Brilliant Quote by Will Shetterly Download Open image “The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.” — Will Shetterly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brilliant Fake Great things Opportunity Revision Writing
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share
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
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 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
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 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, 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
“A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.” — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as,… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They… — Amanda Hale Copy Share Image
I enjoy working with Deborah Ann, I think she's brilliant. It's been a joy. — Rutina Wesley Copy Share Image
Gravity Falls' didn't just appear overnight - every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists. — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan,… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
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