Top 35 Revise Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Revise Quotes from famous people such as Hallie Ephron, Rita Dove, Greg Kurstin, Erin Morgenstern, Diane Ackerman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
Hallie Ephron
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.
Rita Dove
Sia is like no one else I’ve ever worked with. She comes completely from this non-logical but very emotional place. I could be wrong, but she doesn’t really seem to analyse what she’s writing. She doesn’t really revise it, but goes with that first thing that comes out.
Greg Kurstin
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
Erin Morgenstern
I’ve always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb into my bay window. I may not be inspired every day, but on the days I am, I need to be in place to write. If I’m not particularly inspired, I’ll revise or do research or correspondence.
Diane Ackerman
Most of us have heard the saying, ‘Cleanliness is next to godliness.’ That’s a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I’m concerned, what’s next to godliness is resourcefulness.
Chris Gardner
When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
We’re not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more positive light than is true.
Lindsay Ellis
I don’t want to help a politician revise the truth.
Terry Gross
I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don’t revise it once it’s set down.
Jim Harrison
Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
Carol Berg
I try to write very fast. I don’t revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It’s usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I’ll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.
Billy Collins
In the end, I am confident that we can revise our rules to provide necessary and appropriate flexibility for local broadcasters while preserving and/or improving the experience of those watching children’s programming.
Michael O’Rielly
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
James Schuyler
I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn’t work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
Antonya Nelson
I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.
Anthony Bourdain
I started on computers with ‘Billy Bathgate,’ a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it’s so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I’ve learned to discipline myself.
E. L. Doctorow
I like to think of ‘the studio’ as a laboratory where I can go in, learn tricks, apply, revise, and release. I’d figure I had about the same emotional attachment to my craft as a guy over at NASA does over… NASA stuff.
Deadmau5
We’ll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
Charles Kennedy
Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past.
Michael J. Knowles
I’ve found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
Benjamin Cohen
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don’t go forward until I know that what I’ve written is as good as I can make it.
Anita Shreve
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you’ll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can’t revise it if you haven’t written it.
Justin Cronin
Conservative supporters might either have the courage of their convictions or, if truly ashamed, revise them, but they should at least refute the proposition that defending your own interests is only acceptable if you’re broke.
Lionel Shriver
There’s a great deal of stripping away; in early drafts, I may say the same thing two or three times, and each may be appropriate, but I try to pick the best and improve it. I work on sound a great deal, and I will change a word or two, revise punctuation and line breaks, looking for the sound I want.
Donald Hall
In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the ‘Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.’
Wendy Long
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
Barry Hannah
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray
I’m not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I’m satisfied.
M. J. Rose
Trump would have us revise and edit our historical memory of 9/11, turning it from a unifying narrative of heroism, tragedy, and war and recast it to serve the political ends of a man unworthy of the presidency.
Rick Wilson
The sheer number of legendary narratives and historical

The sheer number of legendary narratives and historically verifiable incidents invites us to revise assumptions about the origins of biological and chemical warfare and its moral and technological constraints.
Adrienne Mayor
SARS was a very important event… And many countries have learned from SARS… The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.
Margaret Chan
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there’s time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
Richard Greenberg
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it’s tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth, and revise the Eurocentric and Christian tropes that Tolkien’s particular worldview bequeathed.
Ross Douthat