Revisions Quotes

“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 work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.”

“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 am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.”

“Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story, they take time, effort, revisions.”

“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.”

“Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.”

“I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.”

“...quantum problems unseat many classical ideas about matter, causality, and change that biologists use, and that disruption in turn entails radical revisions to the ideas about the mechanism in evolution, in ways we don't yet acknowledge.”