Quotes About Revision

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful.

Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue

Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.

Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.

Bucknell joined their family, editing her

returned to the typewriter, angrily erasing and correcting each mistake she'd made, desperately wishing she could as easily wipe out her mental image of the man in her carriage house.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

It might sound a little glib, but maybe I don't know what a finished poem is. I lean toward the school that a poem is never finished, it's just abandoned.

Sometimes when a prose poem is floundering, I rewrite it as verse, and it's better in that form. The reverse process of verse into prose poem, also works to clarify what's working in the writing and what's not. It's not a blunt line that demarcates the difference between verse and the prose poem.

Any plan is bad which is not susceptible of change.

I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

I've never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don't remember, but the original 'Goldbergs' pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.

The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!

I'm a great reviser. I do these reckless drafts just to get the lay of the land.

I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.

Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider?

After I wrote 'Sweet Summer Day,' Jihyo did the guide recording. We did that in our apartment, revising the lyrics together, allocating parts to members and discussing the song together.

'Your Dog' I tried to re-record at my house, like, four times after the studio recordings were done.

We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

There's always things you can refine and polish.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.