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I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

— Katherine Paterson

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

— Donald Hall

“I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and…

— Libba Bray

I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore.…

— Alice Munro

“Time had the power to cancel all changes wrought by human artifice, overwriting all new revisions with further revisions, returning the flow to its…

— Murakami Haruki

“History isn’t a tale told once, it’s a series of revisions.”

— Victor LaValle

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the…

— Marie Lu

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

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start -…

— William Manchester

Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

— Michael Longley