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.
I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.
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.
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.
I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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 no challenges or revision.
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