Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of…

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

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six…

— Gail Tsukiyama

“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

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

“If you're stuck in a puddle, it means there's higher ground all around you, you just have to step onto it.”

— Emilyann Girdner

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

— Robert Lane Greene

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend…

— Porochista Khakpour

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you…

— Laura Riding

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries. ~ Stephen King - If King is this then I guess I'm a…

— SB Knight

[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would…

— Michael Chabon

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people…

— Robert Harris

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

— Laura Riding

“I describe Soldiers And Sisterhood as the literary equivalent of a chocolte biscuit - all the fun and and none of the calories.”

— Andrew Nicholson

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

— Stephen King

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

— Stefan Kanfer