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No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
Correction does much, encourgement does more
To improve is to change.
The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.
Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.
Everything changes as it is written down.
Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
Magic happens in the rewrite!
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.
I read, therefore it writes
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.
The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see.
Half my life is an act of revision.
The clearest relationships were distorted, the most obvious were forgotten, the trivial and unimportant pushed into the foreground. It must be written again, right from the beginning ...
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.
Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.
It reads better than it lives
It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.
And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.
Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
My life needs editing.
Write it
Like it
Read it
Hate it
Rewrite it
Done
Further editing deepens a story.
Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.
To read is to change
Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.
When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
Revision is its own reward.
The editing of a good piece of writing is like the editing of one's life: never quite complete; rendering all, ultimately, unfinished works when we perish from this earth.
I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.
Good writing is rewriting.
But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity.
Write drunk; edit sober.
Don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.
The point of the essay is to change things.
[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130)
I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.
Mort moved my ending to the beginning, took out all the adjectives, cut the whole thing in half, and made it one hundred percent better.
'That's how it's done,' he said. Best writing lesson I ever had.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Writing is a game of hits and misses. Throw out the hits and keep the misses.
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
Writing fiction is: Imagination and structure first and foremost - then revision, revision, revision! Then, revision!
Read to rediscover.
It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again ...
Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.
Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.
Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.
This is how you edit a quote
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
Correct what you can; learn from what you can't.
I write a line and then I revise the line and then I write two lines and then I revise lines one and two and then I write one, two and three and I revise one and two and then I write seven and eight and then I see that should be line four and I continually work it over as I go.
Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version.
Small changes. Big differences
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
adjusted the 'chief
A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.-- Mason Cooley
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.
Myself I must remake.
It is not always wise to appear singular.
I can't write five words but that I change seven.
I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.
The change of the word does not alter the matter
When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.
I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Truth reforms as well as informs.
The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.
When I tell, I inform. When I ask, I transform.
Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]
I'm the one who still needs rewriting. Don't we all?
Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements,
Write. Edit. Repeat.
A worthy old scholar, criticising the king's penmanship, pointed out a fault. He, smiling, erased the word, but when the critic was gone, began to restore it, remarking that it was right, but it was better to spoil paper than the self-confidence of an old man.
GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
I learn a little more and I change a little bit
For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.