Contrast Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

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

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

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you…

— John Dos Passos

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

— Margaret Haddix

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 calculated that if I wrote five pages a day, which seemed very doable, I would have an 1,800-page first draft when the deadline…

— Michael Showalter

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

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