Creation Quote by May Sarton

Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but…

— John Dufresne

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come,…

— T. E. Lawrence

But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth…

— K. M. Soehnlein

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have…

— Vikram Seth

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

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

— Romulus Linney

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

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea,…

— Bernard Malamud

So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out a draft…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could…

— K. Flay

I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but…

— Mary J. Miller