Re Revision Quotes

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach. — Kiese Laymon

We write while sleepwalking and revise when awake. — Marty Rubin

Blood is our only permanent history, and blood history does not admit of revision — Harry Crews

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

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident. — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived. — Noam Chomsky

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

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

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon. — Raymond Chandler

In writing, you must kill all your darlings. — William Faulkner

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce

Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision. — Dave Eggers

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

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

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

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. — Ellen Gallagher

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant. — Will Shetterly

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better. — Buffy Andrews

Revision is its own reward. — Marianne Moore

The process of revision should be constant and endless — Salman Rushdie

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

It is the Eve of Division; It is the Dawn of Revision. We did not come here to lose. We did not come here to be divided. — Mark Donnelly

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

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

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. — Samuel E. Morison

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes. — Neal Stephenson

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

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times. — Patricia Reilly Giff

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