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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

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

— Margaret Haddix

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

— Dean Koontz

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

— Natalie Goldberg

I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it…

— Stephen King

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

— John Dufresne

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

— PJ Harvey

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just…

— Steven Hall

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'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a second or…

— John Irving

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter