I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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.
The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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.
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.
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
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.
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.
Revision is a good impulse to have.
Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.
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.
God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.
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.
Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.
My YouTube videos have literally millions of views. . . Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.