Early morning Quote by Paul J. Silvia

“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living…

— Don Roff

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”

— Patricia Fuller

“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.”

— Kai Strand

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

“I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.”

— Cassandra Duffy

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

— Bernard Malamud

If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments…

— Karl Hyde

“...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words and hold…

— Kathleen Norris

For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal.…

— Hermann Hesse

“Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever…”

— Lisa Jones

“One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ... ... and drinking coffee.”

— Linda Ghaderi