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I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
Joyce Carol Oates / Author
My Time
Revising
Written
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I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.
Martha Ronk /
Moving
Revising
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I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
Ariel Pink / Singer-Songwriter
Permanent
Revising
Song
States
Always See Never
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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
Margaret Haddix / Writer
Firsts
Long
Revising
Writing
First Place
Manuscript
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I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
Chaim Potok / Author
Book
Revising
Written
Draft
Typed
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean Koontz / Author
Pages
Revising
Writing
Draft
Slowly
Page
Polishing
Quick
Revise
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I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.
Glenn Branca / Composer
Pieces
Revising
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All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.
Bradley Walsh /
Levels
Revising
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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 / Author
Paper
Print
Revising
Type
Longhand
Reads
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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 / Screenwriter
Regard
Revising
Thinking
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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 / Author
Ankles
Ears
Revising
Shocked
Touched
Lately
Scratched
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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 / Novelist
Revising
Commitments
Desk
Researching
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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 / Novelist
Revising
Hard Time
Inordinate
Sentence
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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 / Writer
Cost
Revising
Self-doubt
Solitude
Require
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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 / Novelist
Fortunate
Long
Manuscripts
Rejection
Revising
Series
Trying
Usual
Good Enough Long
Good Long Way
Agent
Finally
Long Series
Rejections
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When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer is no, go back and add something.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Add
Hurt
Revising
Family Your Will
Offend
Consider
Family Will Your
Immediate
Member
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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 / Novelist
Few Words
Mean
Revising
Writing
Word
Scribble
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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 / Writer
Revising
Thinking
Twelve
Writing
Comma
Easily
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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 / Author
Following
Marble
Mean
Revising
Thinking
Writing
Chip
Create
Figure
Hardest Part
Piece
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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 / Writer
Magnet
Revising
Draft
Johnny
Monster
Mozart
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After I wrote 'Sweet Summer Day,' Jihyo did the guide recording. We did that in our apartment, revising the lyrics together, allocating parts to members and discussing the song together.
Jeongyeon /
Discussing
Members
Revising
Summer
Allocating
Guide
Parts
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Easier
Frustrating
Revising
Song
Stuff
Screenplay
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One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
Eavan Boland / Poet
Authority
Engaged
Revising
Self
Among
Notions
One Of The Things
Parts
Poem
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Doing a movie of one of the Raksura books would involve a lot of CGI, but I have thought about who I'd like to play the characters. Some of them I just can't pin down to a specific actor, and I keep revising my mental list.
Martha Wells / Fiction Writer
Cgi
Revising
Involve
List
Pin
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The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is learning scenes, but to start going through biology, chemistry, and all of those sciences would be just a nightmare.
Tamzin Outhwaite / Actress
Biology
Chemistry
Nightmare
Revising
Back To School
Exams
Hellish
Sciences
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I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by writing it and then revising the entire thing. When it comes to saga, this means writing large chunks of prose before any of it coalesces into a book.
Katharine Kerr / Novelist
Chunks
Discovery
Plans
Prose
Revising
Saga
Termed
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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 / Novelist
Plot
Revising
Calendar
Dates
Detailing
Elaborate
Timeline
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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 / Author
Book
Computer
Cutting
Revising
Wonder
Writing
Grown
Paragraphs
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I tend to write some, then outline some, then delete some, then go back and rewrite some. I love revising and hate first drafts. I have to wear bedroom slippers. My current favorites come from the Zetter Hotel in London. They have little tobacco pipes on the toes.
Lauren Kate / Author
Bedroom
Hate
Hotel
London
Revising
Slippers
Tobacco
Current
Delete
Drafts
Favorites
Wear
Outline
Pipes
Rewrite
Tend
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Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role was in 1539 when Henry VIII's act of proclamations was neutered by their lordships so effectively that the Act was repealed in 1547.
Jacob Rees-Mogg /
Chamber
Fulfilled
Revising
Effectively
Lords
Occasion
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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 / Author
Morning
Consistency
Novel
Pages
Revising
Writing
Approximately
Beginning
Ending
Spend
Last
Rewrite
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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 / Author
Cutting
Revising
Grown
Paragraphs
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Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
Margo Jefferson / Critic
Choreography
Interpreting
Jazz
Revising
Risk
Scripts
Singers
Timing
Conceal
Dancers
Material
Revealed
Tonality
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I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
Nick D'aloisio / Computer Programmer
April
Esoteric
Exam
Google
Ideas
Information
March
Problem
Relevant
Revising
Stuff
Term
Type
Years
Quite
Useful
Quite A Lot
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I like making things. I enjoy putting words and images on a blank space. There should be joy in the writing itself because parts of it are so challenging and lonesome. I take great pleasure in reading, researching, and interviewing. I enjoy forming my sentences and revising them to make them clean.
Min Jin Lee / Writer
Blank
Lonesome
Revising
Sentences
Forming
Great Pleasure
Images
Interviewing
Researching
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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 / Screenwriter
Events
Lied
Regard
Revising
Victor's
Flat
Flat Out
No Question
Quotes
Throughout
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Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was, or because I find flaws in the writing, but more because I get so burnt out on a novel once I've finished writing, revising, editing and copy editing it that I genuinely never want to look at it again after it's gone to press.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Editing
Heaven
Revising
Burnt
Copy
Genuinely
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