Quotes Tagged With :revision

We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul....

Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows....

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The....

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without....

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal....

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology,....

I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a....