Firsts Quote by Judy Blume

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

— Chaim Potok

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

— Erin Morgenstern

I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better; what…

— Wally Lamb

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 don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean I think…

— Carolyn See

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline…

— Ted Solotaroff

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's…

— Ramsey Campbell

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with.…

— Len Wein

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

— John Dufresne

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to…

— Matt de la Pena

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

— Edward Hirsch

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the…

— Noah Hawley