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Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise. -- Jeff Vandermeer
To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change. -- Abhishek Shukla
Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl. -- Julie Anne Peters
Only in your imagination can you revise. -- Fay Wray
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot. -- Erin Morgenstern
I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page. -- Wentworth Miller
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise. -- Nancy Thayer
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise. -- Barry Hannah
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older. -- Charles Kennedy
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. -- John Irving
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. -- Dean Koontz
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem. -- James Schuyler
I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way. -- Benjamin Cohen
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
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it. -- Anita Shreve
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
I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been. -- Maximillian Degenerez
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations. -- Margaret Chan
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
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
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
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
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
I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself. -- E. L. Doctorow
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 for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. -- Paul Hawken
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
I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb into my bay window. I may not be inspired every day, but on the days I am, I need to be in place to write. If I'm not particularly inspired, I'll revise or do research or correspondence. -- Diane Ackerman
I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done. -- Billy Collins
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
You can't revise a blank page. -- Leonard Wolf
Whoever won the war, would revise the history. -- Toba Beta
With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world. -- Alison Lurie
I don't want to help a politician revise the truth. -- Terry Gross
The economists will have to revise their theories of value. -- Albert Einstein
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. -- John Dufresne
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. -- S.A. Bodeen
I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different. -- Rigoberto Gonzalez
One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work. -- Tom Barbash
I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions. -- A.J. Ayer
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. -- Gail Carson Levine
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. -- Henry Ford
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem -- James Schuyler
Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. -- William Strunk, Jr.
In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. -- Sol Stein
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is. -- Oswald Chambers
I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go. -- Edward Hirsch
When I am king, I will revise the sexual bases system so that getting to first base will include oral sex and sodomy! -- Adam Carolla
In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. -- Mary Oliver
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done. -- Peter Orner
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
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
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
We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less -- Nicolas Sarkozy
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right. -- Ellen Hunnicutt
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
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York. -- Richard Greenberg
As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them. -- Mandy Aftel
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
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
I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about. -- Alice Mattison
It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give. -- William Saroyan
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion. -- Diane Wakoski
If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work. -- Michael Ian Black
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
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
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite. -- Alex Flinn
If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate. -- Donald Hall
We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present -- Russell Kirk

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