Construction Quote by Grant Morrison

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

— Elie Wiesel

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

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get…

— Steve Guttenberg

I'm often forced to draw a lot of tiny panels due to the limited number of pages and the complexity of the story.

— George Perez

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

— Jane Espenson

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

— Dean Koontz

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

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