Quotes about Revision

“ Half my life is an act of revision. “

-John Irving-

Half my life is an act of revision.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

The process of doing your second draft is the process of making it look like you knew what you were doing all along.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Revision is love. It's the care you take to make something the best it can be.

Revision means to look again. That's what writers do.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Don't romanticize your 'first draft'. Be ready to destroy it.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. Then I revise.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Then revise sober.

Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

A word after a word after a word is power. Refine it.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Write it, then revise.