First place Quote by Margaret Haddix

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take…

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Chaim Potok

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once…

— Sara Shepard

I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then…

— Robert Graves

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

— John Dufresne

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

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 can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

— Robert Gottlieb

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I…

— Anita Shreve

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to…

— Terry Pratchett