Top 168 Revise Quotes & Sayings

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then it's retyped again. Then there's a third typing, which is the final one. Nothing should then remain that offends the eye.

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

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

I write a line and then I revise the line and then I write two lines and then I revise lines one and two and then I write one, two and three and I revise one and two and then I write seven and eight and then I see that should be line four and I continually work it over as I go.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

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.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.

We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.

Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past.

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

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.

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

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

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

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.

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

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.

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

You can't revise a blank page.

Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, can’t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates — or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?

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

Only in your imagination can you revise.

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

I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

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

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

I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

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

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

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

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

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.

If the AAP comes to power, we will revise laws on road safety.

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

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.

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

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.

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.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

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

I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'

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.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

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.

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

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.