The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation
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.
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.
He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation. . . there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.
Revision is a good impulse to have.
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
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.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.