The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy,… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
“Time had the power to cancel all changes wrought by human artifice, overwriting all new revisions with further revisions, returning the flow… — Murakami Haruki Copy Share Image
“I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“The key to revising is to let the writing get 'cold' between revisions; a time lapse between readings enables you to read… — Claire B. May and Gordon S. May Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
