What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.
William MaxwellTags: past revision revisionism the-past
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
Raymond ChandlerTags: writing on-writing revision
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
William FaulknerChildren being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.
J.K. RowlingTags: change revision muggles anti-muggle
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
Henry GreenTags: style writers storytelling secrets writer revision highlight
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
Ha JinThen based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.
Judith McNaughtTags: experience revision plan
That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.
Kelly BarnhillTags: inspirational writing revision
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.
Don RoffTags: humor writing editing revision
From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimmed away, leaving my image behind. Photos of me alone or of mountains and rivers and deer and cats were left intact. Three albums rendered into a revised past. It was as if I'd been alone at birth, alone all my days, and would continue alone.
Haruki MurakamiTags: loneliness alone divorce revision photos nameless-protagonist photo-albums
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