Writer Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

— John Irving

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence…

— Michael Cunningham

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

— Mary Oliver

“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living…

— Don Roff

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

— Tom Barbash

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem

— James Schuyler

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

— Bret Michaels

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

— Ellie Goulding

I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I write lyrics really fast. When it's time to write, I usually put them off until the very end and then when it's time…

— Luke Temple

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind…

— Lauren Hart

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch.…

— Clint Eastwood