Quotes About Revision

You sketch out an overall shape, paint the underlying environment, then fill in the details. You constantly step back with a critical eye to view what you've done. Every now and then you'll throw a canvas away and start again.

History books are being re-written all the time

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The work is performed, first by railing at the stupidity, negligence, ignorance, and asinine tastelessness of the former editors

Edit more, my mantra.

No ha sido esa larga enfermedad -mi vida- sino esa larga convalecencia, también mi vida. La revisión liberal-burguesa, la ilusión del perfeccionamiento, el veneno de la esperanza.

You've not revised ... at all?" "Esther ... Surely this shouldn't be a problem. English lit is a no-mark's degree with no vocational value. Just wave your hands around a lot and 'interpret'!

Also, tweak your ideal note-taking template if you feel some aspects aren't working or could be improved upon.

I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the details, see if what you're saying is what you wanted to be saying.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

The writer's life is a life of revisions.

A] new idea will, like mother earth, take some serious hits. If good it will survive, probably in modified form. If bad it will die, usually at the time of death or retirement of the last original proponent. As Paul Samuelson once said of the science of economics: funeral by funeral, theory advances.

After writing and before publishing a book, the writer should read it as a reader since such insight mirrors the flaws.

Generally, you read one time, whereas, a writer writes and rewrites several times to reach your heart and mind rightly.

Adaptation for film is, by definition, a process of editorializing.

It's easier to rewrite anything, even the worst writing ever, than to write something for the first time.

I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser.

that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser

In every part of our society, rules have to be questioned and adapted.

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.