Quotes About Revision

No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.

The notion of the need to revise America's global role, to palliate Islam, and achieve diplomatic distance from Israel had become conventional by the time I arrived in Washington.

reeducating and "re-righting" history

The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

And concepts rejected when they came from someone else often looked better when rethought as one's own. Even the Emperor, it seemed, was not immune to that particular hubris.

the past can never be literally true in memory: it must be continuously edited, and the question is only whether we take creative control of the editing or not.

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

But as of late, I have been consumed with the significant task of revising the latest edition of my Practical Handbook of Bee Culture , while alternately putting the finishing touches on my four volumes of The Whole Art of Detection . The latter is a rather tedious, labyrinthine undertaking...

First thoughts are not always the best.

My life needs editing.

Don't review or credit a book after reading it once. Credit it on your second read and criticise it only after you've done your third try of the same book.

The meanderings of the heart and mind are fickle and are often wont to be withdrawn or amended.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

facsimile science. (By this term I mean materials that carry the accoutrements of science—including in some cases peer review—but fail to adhere to accepted scientific standards such as methodological naturalism, complete and open reporting of data, and the willingness to revise assumptions in the light of data.)49 This is the problem of for-profit and predatory conferences and journals.

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors.

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author

Revision is of greatest importance when the motive is to change oneself, when there is a sincere desire to be something different, when the longing is to awaken the ideal active spirit of forgiveness.

Don't blame; only resolve. It is not man and the earth at their loveliest, but you practising the art of revision make paradise. The evidence of this truth can lie only in your own experience of it. Try revising the day. It is to the pruning shears of revision that we owe our prime fruit.

Hâtez-vous lentement, sans perdre courage. Vingt fois sur le métier, remettez votre ouvrage. Polissez-le sans cesse et le repolissez. Ajoutez quelquefois et souvent effacez.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.

Tarih gibi bo?anmalar da zaman zaman yeniden yorumlan?r.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.