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Revision is its own reward.
Half my life is an act of revision.
Revision is a good impulse to have.
The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act.
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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 law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution.
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.
The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.
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
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.
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.
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.
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
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.
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
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.
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.
A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.
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.
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.
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.
I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and less painful with each book.