During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm…

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to…

— Matt de la Pena

“Practicality requires that we stop somewhere in the process, but nothing actually says we can't keep on writing and revising. In fact, most writers…

— Ralph L. Wahlstrom

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”

— Patricia Fuller

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of…

— Chaim Potok

“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”

— Robert Lane Greene

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

— Anais Nin

I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going…

— Tony Kushner

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

— Thomas Pynchon

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

— Ray Bradbury

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

— H. G. Wells

My ideas come often not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

— Anonymous

“It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. This may have nothing to do…

— Thomas Pynchon

The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan…

— Felix Adler

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure…

— Virgil Suarez

“Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.”

— Paul J. Silvia