My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.
But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten. ' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.
My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.
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!
Revision is a good impulse to have.
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it. ' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.