Character Quote by John Dufresne

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'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

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

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

Only in your imagination can you revise.

— Fay Wray

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea,…

— Bernard Malamud

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

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

— Romulus Linney

So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out a draft…

— Edward Hirsch

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some…

— Pawel Pawlikowski