Behave Quote by Michael Cunningham

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and…

— Chang-Rae Lee

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what…

— Joan Didion

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 write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me,…

— Yann Martel

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

— Chaim Potok

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

— John Dufresne

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Margaret Haddix

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways…

— Claudia Rankine