Book Quote by Chaim Potok

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

— Erin Morgenstern

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 like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then…

— Judy Blume

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you…

— John Dos Passos

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

— Margaret Haddix

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 my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or…

— Sarah Dessen

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

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

— John Dufresne

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use a computer…

— Lauren Groff

I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and…

— Alexandra Bracken