I can Quote by Dean Koontz

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

— Dean Koontz

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

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be…

— Colleen McCullough

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or…

— Joan Didion

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the…

— Noah Hawley

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always,…

— Harry Turtledove

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

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

— Grant Morrison

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

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have…

— Steve Toltz

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

— Erin Morgenstern