Compelled Quote by Anonymous

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

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 write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let…

— David Means

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 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

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

— Margaret Haddix

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents…

— Will Self

You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's not like…

— Dan Mazer

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

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same…

— Toni Morrison