Certain Quote by John Dos Passos

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

— Chaim Potok

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

— Martha Ronk

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

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix

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

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first…

— Robert Stone

I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and…

— Alexandra Bracken

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

— Erin Morgenstern

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then…

— Judy Blume