34 Quotes About Revision

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."[The Writer's Digest Interview: Stephen King & Jerry B. Jenkins (Jessica Strawser, Writer's Digest, May/June 2009)]

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

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.

That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.

Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.