Top 32 Best Way To Revise Quotes

#1. Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

Peter De Vries

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#2. 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

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#3. Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Carol Berg

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#4. I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.

Stephen King

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#5. My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

Philip Levine

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#6. 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

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#7. 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

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

Charles Kennedy

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#9. of a total of 268) affixed their signatures to the Nineteen Articles.
It was indicated that the Draft Committee would meet within the year to review and, if necessary, revise the statement.

R.C. Sproul

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#10. Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.
Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!
Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,
trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.

Toba Beta

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#11. Every time I revise, life just gets a little worse for my protagonist.

B.K. Raine

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#12. I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

Terry Gross

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#13. When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

Hallie Ephron

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

S.A. Bodeen

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#15. Unless you experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong, your brain will never revise its models. Before your neurons can succeed, they must repeatedly fail. There are no shortcuts for this painstaking process.

Jonah Lehrer

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#16. 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

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#17. Only in your imagination can you revise.

Fay Wray

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#18. I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

Gail Carson Levine

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#19. Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Henry Ford

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#20. If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

Justin Cronin

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#21. If you say bullshit on things come in handy,
better revise it before others say otherwise.

Toba Beta

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#22. 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

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#23. That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

D. James Kennedy

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#24. Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.

Donna Lynn Hope

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#25. Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

Yusef Komunyakaa

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#26. So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out a draft and then revise it and I think they're happier people. But, I'm just not able to do it that way. I need to just continually examine it as I do it.

Edward Hirsch

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#27. If you don't listen to the question entirely, then
you are going to revise your answers frequently.

Toba Beta

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#28. One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

Tom Barbash

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#29. We live and die by our stories if we don't rewrite our own history. The past is merely what we make of it, the future ours to create. Rewrite revise, erase.

Sheryl Mallory-Johnson

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#30. If an organization is not able to change its model of itself unless and until completely clear-cut evidence accumulates, that organization will tend to learn late, that is, it will revise its model of vulnerabilities only after serious events occur.

David D. Woods

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#31. 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

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#32. 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

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