Revise Quotes

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

Work, Write, Quick

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

Love, Enjoy, Working

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
John Irving

Yourself, Reason, Writer

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
Erin Morgenstern

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
Erin Morgenstern

Writing, Same, Around

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

Book, May, Words

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
Michael Cunningham

Single, Down, Find

Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
Benjamin Cohen

Business, Found, Along

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
Richard Perle

Cannot, American, Question

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

Yourself, Why, Sense

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
Terry Gross

Truth, Help, Politician

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

End, Often, Though

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Nancy Thayer

Life, Late, Fiction

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
John J. Sirica

History, Justice, Nothing

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