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Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears. -- Elizabeth McCracken
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song. -- Kelly Jones
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. -- Gail Carson Levine
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything. -- Ariel Pink
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. -- Chaim Potok
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. -- Margaret Haddix
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. -- Dean Koontz
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours. -- Gail Tsukiyama
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out. -- Sara Shepard
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it. -- Chang-Rae Lee
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. -- Danielle Steel
The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone. -- David Rakoff
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in. -- Francine Prose
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. -- J. K. Rowling
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. -- Chaim Potok
I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising. -- Donald Ray Pollock
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising. -- Stephen King
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline. -- Maria Semple
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly. -- Megan McCafferty
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around, and deleting whole paragraphs constantly. -- Megan McCafferty
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that. -- David S. Goyer
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Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising. -- Eric G. Wilson
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. -- John Dufresne
I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly. -- Martha Ronk
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. -- Patricia Fuller
The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease. -- Susan Stewart
I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over. -- Glenn Branca
The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. -- David S. Goyer
Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
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.
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising. -- Bridget Riley
The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist. -- Tim Kaine
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever. -- May Sarton
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. -- John Dos Passos
Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published. -- Lee Gutkind
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on. -- Dean Koontz
I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together! -- Judy Blume
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making. -- Li-Young Lee
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice. -- Virgil Suarez
For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising their thinking and behavior, intuitions about their area of experience. -- Charles Faulkner
Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it as an opportunity to improve something you already love. -- Marion Dane Bauer
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
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper. -- Erica Jong
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence. -- Anthony Bourdain

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