Revise Quotes

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.

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

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.

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.

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

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.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.