7 Quotes Tagged: revision

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

Given the initial talent … writing is largely a matter of application and hard work, of writing and rewriting endlessly, until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me, that usually means many, many revisions.

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

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.