Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"I can’t write five words but that I change seven."
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Revision
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Tracy Kidder
Author
"Writing is revision. All prose responds to work."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers."
May Sarton
Poet
"Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation"
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"Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision."
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"This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction."
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"But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action."
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