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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me,…

— Yann Martel

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I self-edit all the time when Im writing. I enjoy reading the story over and over, tweaking it as I go.

— Stephenie Meyer

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

— Edward Hirsch

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand…

— Siegfried Lenz

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

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take…

— Ellie Goulding

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of…

— Per Petterson

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I…

— Louis Sachar