Quotes of: Revising Keyword

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

The Painted Drum

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

T.S. Eliot

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

Laurent Fabius

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

Margaret Haddix

The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

Gautam Adani

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

James Schuyler

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

Chang-Rae Lee

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

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

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

The Book of Disquiet

My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.

Joyce Carol Oates

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

Stanislav Grof

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

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

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

Matthew Goode

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

Keeping You a Secret

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

Ivica Dacic

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

Jonathan King

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Anthony Bourdain

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

Danielle Steel