Quotes of: Revision Keyword

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

Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this. If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your head that says “Are you kidding? No one is going to want to read this drivel” and keep on going. You’re...

Jamie Freveletti

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

S.A. Bodeen

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

Dean Koontz

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Death of a Salesman: Revised Edition

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

T. E. Lawrence

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

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

Kelly Jones

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

Julius Wellhausen

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

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 break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?

Divine Intuition: Your Inner Guide to Purpose, Peace, and Prosperity, Revised and Updated

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

Six Thinking Hats Revised Edition

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

Margaret Haddix

Business Plans: It's about the Process, Not the Product

The Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Business Plans: It's about the Process, Not the Product New, Revised and Expanded, Second Edition

Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.

Divine Intuition: Your Inner Guide to Purpose, Peace, and Prosperity, Revised and Updated

The way to create more joy in your life is by having an attitude of abundance.

Divine Intuition: Your Inner Guide to Purpose, Peace, and Prosperity, Revised and Updated

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.

Before the Next Draft; 26 Plot Steps to Revision Plot eBook

We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool...

Paul Hawken

Don't Believe Everything You Think!

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Reconsidered, Revised, & Expanded With Twenty-Five New Essays

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

Six Thinking Hats Revised Edition