Book Quote by Joan Didion

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence…

— Michael Cunningham

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes.…

— Jonathan Trigell

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

— William Safire

I often reread books I have written

— Taylor Caldwell

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me,…

— Yann Martel

When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it.

— Jon Rahm

I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then…

— Robert Graves

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.

— Visionist

When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then…

— Elie Wiesel