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When I am king, I will revise the sexual bases system so that getting to first base will include oral sex and sodomy! — Adam Carolla

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem. — James Schuyler

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk Jr.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. — Gail Carson Levine

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

When you write, you are telling a story ... to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself ... over and over again. — Kai Strand

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages. — Mahatma Gandhi

Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance. — Donna Lynn Hope

Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day — Evan Sutter

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it. — Anita Shreve

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it. — Don Roff

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. — Dean Koontz

The economists will have to revise their theories of value. — Albert Einstein

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft. — John Dufresne

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm. — Roberto Bolano

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth. — Terry Gross

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done. — Peter Orner

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite. — Akhil Sharma

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page. — Wentworth Miller

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less — Nicolas Sarkozy

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl. — Julie Anne Peters

But there was no way to know, and no way to go back. I could not revise. I had been who I had been, and so I largely remained. — Kathleen Rooney

The original games were gladiatorial fights to the death. We had to revise that after a few years because, well, people stopped signing up. — Craig Schaefer

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise. — Jeff VanderMeer

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions. — A.J. Ayer

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise. — Nancy Thayer

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters. — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum. — Hal Duncan

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. — John Irving

We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older. — Charles Kennedy

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go. — Edward Hirsch

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard. — Carol Berg

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied. — M.J. Rose

It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft. — Janette Rallison

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise. — Barry Hannah

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world. — Alison Lurie

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. — S.A. Bodeen

You can't revise a blank page. — Leonard Wolf

Don't think. Act. We can always revise and revisit once we've acted. But we can accomplish nothing until we act. — Steven Pressfield

Always revise... — George Thomas Clark

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way — Jacques Barzun

Revisit and revise, ace." -Eva — Sylvia Day

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot. — Erin Morgenstern

There's only one absolute rule in writing: None of us gets it right the first time. Revise, reverse, reinvent, re-vision. — Jane Yolen

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work. — Tom Barbash

Only in your imagination can you revise. — Fay Wray

Whoever won the war, would revise the history. — Toba Beta

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. — Mary Oliver

Revise. Revisit. Reinvent. — Erica Alex

Every time I revise, life just gets a little worse for my protagonist. — B.K. Raine

If you say bullshit on things come in handy,
better revise it before others say otherwise. — Toba Beta

If you don't listen to the question entirely, then
you are going to revise your answers frequently. — Toba Beta

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is. — Oswald Chambers

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is. — Patrick Rothfuss

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way. — Benjamin Cohen

My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York. — Richard Greenberg

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. — Henry Ford

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

It [treating trauma] may even cause you to reconsider some of your previous views of the world and to revise your sociopolitical perspectives. — Aphrodite Matsakis

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history. — Laura Anne Gilman