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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Nancy Thayer
Life
Too Late
Never Too Late
Too
Late
Never
Revise
Fiction
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.
Anthony Bourdain
Time
Good
Sometimes
Hurts
Embarrassing
Entertain
Wrong
Feels
Most
Opinion
Always
Revise
Really
Notion
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.
Paul Hawken
Good
Capitalism
Business
Natural
Economic Development
Will
Value
Economics
Practice
Thinking
Tool
Our
Resources
Promotion
Give
Both
Economic
Development
Powerful
New
Policy
Provide
Revise
Revised
Stabilize
Public
Natural Resources
Public Good
Full
Theory
Public Policy
Profitability
Need
I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
Benjamin Cohen
You
Business
Opportunities
Will
Way
Constantly
Emerge
Develop
Along
Make
Revise
Situations
Business Opportunities
Your
Plans
Found
I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.
Billy Collins
Change
Try
Word
Back
Later
Rip
Some
Minutes
Poem
Weeks
Write
Over
Go
Line
Revise
Very
Get
Sitting
Tinker
Done
Just
Much
Forty
Reason
Whole
Twenty
Fast
Thing
Two
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
John Irving
You
Yourself
Constantly
No Reason
Writer
Revise
Reason
Aware
Necessity
The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations.
Sun Yat-sen
Government
Equality
Independence
National
Our
Guide
Weak
Restore
Small
Toward
Simultaneously
Boundaries
Self-Determination
Self-Government
Within
Foreign
Revise
Offer
Nations
Order
Racial
Should
Aggression
Help
Groups
Among
Resistance
Treaties
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
Barry Hannah
Love
Hate
Editing
Write
Stuff
Revise
I like to think of 'the studio' as a laboratory where I can go in, learn tricks, apply, revise, and release. I'd figure I had about the same emotional attachment to my craft as a guy over at NASA does over... NASA stuff.
Deadmau5
Think
Release
Tricks
About
Guy
Attachment
Emotional
Had
Studio
Stuff
Over
Like
Learn
Does
NASA
Go
Revise
Laboratory
Same
Craft
Where
Figure
Apply
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean Koontz
Work
Slowly
Write
Instead
Polishing
Revise
Revising
Quick
Then
Page
Draft
I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
E. L. Doctorow
Myself
Me
Discipline
Thought
Black
Easy
Stay
Computers
Learned
Because
Revise
Up
Same
Orange
Same Page
Screen
While
Little
Really
Page
Cool
Billy
Letters
Actually
Started
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
Erin Morgenstern
Lot
Revise
Quickly
Then
Draft
Sia is like no one else I've ever worked with. She comes completely from this non-logical but very emotional place. I could be wrong, but she doesn't really seem to analyse what she's writing. She doesn't really revise it, but goes with that first thing that comes out.
Greg Kurstin
Writing
First
Analyse
Else
Out
Seem
Could
Emotional
No-One
Wrong
Like
She
First Thing
Revise
Very
Goes
Place
Worked
Really
Ever
Thing
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.
Holly Black
Time
First
Beginning
Changed
Back
About
Through
Massive
Because
Been
Lot
Lots
Revise
End
Times
Get
Going
Often
Story
While
Again
Things
Draft
Drafting
By The Time
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
James Schuyler
Though
Poem
Toward
Particularly
Revise
End
Often
Cut
Much
It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.
Janette Rallison
Life
Me
Book
My Life
First
Else
Months
About
Write
Takes
Revise
Going
Six
Depends
Draft
I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
Jim Harrison
Time
Long
Long Time
Down
Think
Once
About
Write
Revise
Sentence
Then
Set
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.
Justin Cronin
Day
You
Book
Words
Try
Write
Written
Days
Look
Mess
Revise
Up
Times
May
After
Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
Laura Anne Gilman
Time
History
Every
Every Time
Our
Mythology
Also
Revise
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
Michael Cunningham
Language
Finished
First
Single
Few
Down
Starts
Way
Find
Constantly
Some
Contain
Along
Until
Matches
Go
Revise
Behave
Closely
Just
Intentions
After
Again
Sentence
Then
English
English Language
Resembles
Novels
Keep
Draft
Set
Vaguely
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
Philip Levine
You
Yourself
Sense
State
Poem
Wrote
How
Revise
Get
Intensely
Where
Notion
Why
Conscious
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
Richard Perle
People
Will
States
Ways
Rules
UN
Must
Take
Beyond
Protect
Question
Revise
Legality
American
Jurisdiction
Establish
Cannot
Explicitly
American People
Then
Should
Measures
United
United States
Reject
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.
Rita Dove
Love
Enjoy
Poem
Poets
Discover
Lots
Revise
Revision
Process
Younger
Working
Things
When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Character
Better
Characters
More
Layers
Write
Understand
Revise
Happens
Create
I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
Terry Gross
Truth
Politician
Revise
Want
Help
I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
Wendy Higgins
Setting
Add
Relationships
Characters
Tend
Write
Toward
Lean
Revise
Romance
Elements
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