Inspirational Quote by Anonymous

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

— Margaret Haddix

“You can fix just about any problem in your writing, but you cannot revise a blank page.”

— Gabriela Pereira

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

— John Dufresne

You can't revise a blank page.

— Leonard Wolf

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once…

— Sara Shepard

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

— Bobby Farrelly

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

— Bernard Malamud

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

— Dean Koontz