Done Quote by Amy Hempel

I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore.…

— Alice Munro

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until…

— Ellen Hunnicutt

Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but…

— John Dufresne

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task…

— Pearl S. Buck

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

— Katherine Paterson

My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to…

— Terry Pratchett

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's…

— Peter Orner