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Revision Quotes

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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
Dorothy Parker

Authors on Revision Quotes: Katherine Paterson Louise Erdrich Laurent Fabius Tama Janowitz Jesse Michaels Stanislav Grof Christian Nestell Bovee James Randi Rigoberto Gonzalez Benjamin Cardozo Laurie Halse Anderson Terry Tempest Williams Hillary Clinton Ha Jin Chuck Palahniuk John Irving Rita Dove Donald Hall Ivica Dacic Vladimir Nabokov Marvin Bell J. R. R. Tolkien Colin Baker John Kenneth Galbraith Siri Hustvedt Dorothy Parker Pearl S. Buck Marianne Moore Tracy Kidder May Sarton Arthur C. Clarke Jonathan Franzen Robin Ince
2.
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.
Laurence Overmire

3.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
Tracy Kidder

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The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.
Lester Beall

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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
J. R. R. Tolkien

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I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.
Hillary Clinton

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Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.
Richard Branson

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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud

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I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
Vladimir Nabokov

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Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.
James Randi

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I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
Katherine Paterson

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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

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

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I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
Ha Jin

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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things
Rita Dove

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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 four revisions are needed.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Siri Hustvedt

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Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
Barrett Wendell

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Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.
Terry Tempest Williams

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All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
Arthur C. Clarke

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My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.
Robin Ince

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Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.
Ann Druyan

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There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
Stanislav Grof

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Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.
Jesse Michaels

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Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
John Irving

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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 of writing.
Pearl S. Buck

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

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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
Benjamin Cardozo

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

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The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
Tama Janowitz

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This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
Laurent Fabius

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The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
Louise Erdrich

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Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.
Chuck Palahniuk

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But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
Donald Hall

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I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
Colin Baker

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Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
Ivica Dacic

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Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
Marvin Bell

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I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.
Cate Marvin

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Revision is its own reward.
Marianne Moore

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What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
Steven Pressfield

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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
Jonathan Franzen

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According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.
Daniel Yergin

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A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.
Sheila Kaye-Smith

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Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.
George Saunders

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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.
John Green

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Revision is a good impulse to have.
Rigoberto Gonzalez