Quotes about Revision

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings. — William Faulkner
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon. — Raymond Chandler
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step ba — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be ex — Stephen King
I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shi — Don Roff
That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows. — Kelly Barnhill
To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is — Steve Almond
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin
Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on Christop — Christopher Lehman
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to je — J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-wri — Christopher Hitchens
Past is PrologueThis book was written observing the premise that the seeds of Holocaust denial take root and prosper wit — A.E. Samaan, From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men —even fictional characters. All of — K. Lee Lerner, Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources
I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer. Henry Jame — Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be ex — Stephen King
From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, th — Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjecte — William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good. — Leigh Bardugo
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in. — Henry Green
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the sh — Neil Gaiman