Revision Quotes

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

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.

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

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.

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.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

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