Death Quote by Peter Orner

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— John Dufresne

Only in your imagination can you revise.

— Fay Wray

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you…

— John Dos Passos

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

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until…

— Ellen Hunnicutt

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

— Margaret Haddix

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

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

— Dean Koontz

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