Quotes for All
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. Gail Sheehy
I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game. Gail Carson … Read more
When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won’t even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we’re perpetuating existing laws so they face … Read more
I rewrote the ending of ‘Farewell to Arms’ 39 times before I was satisfied. Ernest Hemingway
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right. Ellen Hunnicutt
This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. Ellen Gallagher
These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, … Read more
Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility. Elizabeth Blackwell
So, the process of revision, it’s not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out a draft and then revise it and I think they’re happier people. But, I’m just not able to do it that way. I need to just continually examine it as I do it. … Read more
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I’ve done very much revision on were the two adaptations – even though the shape of them was pretty much determined by the original work. With my own plays, the only changes, aside from taking a speech out here, putting one in there (if I thought I dwelled … Read more