Intention Quote by Claudia Rankine

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and…

— Chang-Rae Lee

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

— Martha Ronk

Only in your imagination can you revise.

— Fay Wray

If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much better than…

— Dana Spiotta

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

— John Dufresne

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

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

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our…

— Dinty W. Moore

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

— Bernard Malamud

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.

— Gabriel Mann

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