Quotes about Revision

orr we find a typo in a book.

An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Some have been tempted to revise Jesus' command to read, Go ye into all the world, keep your blood pressure down, and, lo, I will make you a well-adjusted personality.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

I've always loved the editing process.

But when it comes to most skills, failure is the only way to become better at something. Knitting teaches you that. You may have to unwind all of your stitches and start anew. That doesn't mean you've wasted your time. You learn from every stitch, even those that don't amount to anything. All writers should be made to knit a hat before they start writing a novel. It would help with understanding the importance of revision, and that the process is what can bring you the most

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.