Accounting Quote by Claire B. May and Gordon S. May

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

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

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

— Margaret Haddix

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

— Chaim Potok

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 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

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

“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

I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better; what…

— Wally Lamb

So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out a draft…

— Edward Hirsch

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does…

— Jacques Barzun

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you…

— Michael Korda