Revision Quotations | Page 2

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

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.

Revision is its own reward.

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

The January revision is mostly due to the plunge in aircraft orders reported in the durable-goods numbers. In February, the index was pulled down by lower consumer confidence, higher jobless claims, shorter delivery times and lower building permits.

The market was bid before this report, but we do cite the decline and downward revision as more supportive data.

The market wasn't looking for a revision of the deflator, which was much larger than expected.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.