Writing Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Margaret Haddix

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 don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

— Akhil Sharma

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

— James Schuyler

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's…

— Peter Orner

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

— John Dufresne

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

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

— Chaim Potok

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

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it…

— Heidi Julavits