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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

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

— Bernard Malamud

Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but…

— John Dufresne

I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but…

— Mary J. Miller

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

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

But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth…

— K. M. Soehnlein

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

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 has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have…

— Vikram Seth

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

— Laurie Halse Anderson