Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story…

— Leslie Jamison

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm…

— Jonathan Dee

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not…

— Dan Brown

I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to write a…

— Kathleen Winter

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful…

— Sheila Kaye-Smith

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want…

— Judy Blume

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

— Chaim Potok

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead…

— Graham Swift

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain