Names Quote by Jacques Barzun

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

— William Strunk, Jr

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's…

— Peter Orner

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

— John Dufresne

My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing…

— David Biespiel

Only in your imagination can you revise.

— Fay Wray

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene…

— John Dufresne

Whenever I teach writing I tell them to never revise as you go. Finish the first draft. This is my writing advice. I can't…

— Matt de la Pena

Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read…

— Neil Gaiman

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

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

— Anne Rice

The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start…

— Howie Day

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task…

— Pearl S. Buck