Application Quote by Rachel Carson

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

Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the last fifty…

— David Berman

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at…

— Harlan Coben

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less…

— Wayne Dyer

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

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

— Khaled Hosseini

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

— John Updike