After Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence…

— Michael Cunningham

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

— Martha Ronk

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

— 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

I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways…

— Claudia Rankine

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

— Margaret Haddix

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to…

— Matt de la Pena

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

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

— John Dufresne

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

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 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