Apart Quote by 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

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

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

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let…

— David Means

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

— Bernard Malamud

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same…

— Toni Morrison

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

— Edward Hirsch

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

“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