Book Quote by Michael Ian Black

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

— Margaret Haddix

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

— Chaim Potok

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then…

— Judy Blume

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

— Janet Evanovich

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

— Dean Koontz

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could…

— E. J. Hughes

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it…

— Henri Matisse

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

— Joni Mitchell

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 think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean I think…

— Carolyn See