Family Quote by Lynn Coady

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

— John Irving

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

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

— William Strunk, Jr

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

Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it…

— Marion Dane Bauer

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our…

— Dinty W. Moore

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

— Margaret Haddix

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you…

— Michael Korda