Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

— Joyce Carol Oates

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they…

— Antonya Nelson

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

You can't go back to make a new start But you can always start now to make a new ending.

— Anthonydex

I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since…

— Amy Hempel

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

— Akhil Sharma

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

You can't go back and make a brand new start. But you can start over and make a brand new ending.

— Sarah Moores

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

— C. S. Forester