#revise

Only in your imagination can you revise. ↗

— Fay Wray

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Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

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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. ↗

— Rita Dove

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After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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I don't want to help a politician revise the truth. ↗

— Terry Gross

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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. ↗

— Philip Levine

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