Top 173 Revision Quotes & Sayings

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

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

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.

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

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

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

I think in my mum's house, I still have my revision notes from my GCSE anthology book!

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

I try to prep a lot of things in advance and be organized, whether that's meals, school runs, homework plans, plenty of GCSE revision.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!

The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

Revision is its own reward.

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

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!

Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act.

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

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

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

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

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

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.

Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

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

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

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.

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

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

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Revision is a good impulse to have.

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

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.

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

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

The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but not better. For me, revision usually has more to do with making the language prettier, finding clearer images, using more active verbs.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution.

Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.