Chance Quote by John Dufresne

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

— Bernard Malamud

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'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 plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until…

— Ellen Hunnicutt

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

— May Sarton

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

“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

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

If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair…

— Naomi Shihab Nye