Writing Quote by Dean Koontz

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get…

— Dean Koontz

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

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

— John Dufresne

I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it,…

— Stephen King

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 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 write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let…

— David Means

I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I…

— Barack Obama

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving