Revising Quote by SMITH Magazine

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

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be…

— Erica Jong

In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying and you…

— George Saunders

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get…

— Dean Koontz

[While designing] I'm mixing two lines of thought really: me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At the start…

— Christian Louboutin

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

— Margaret Haddix

“I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve sat at my kitchen table working on these pages, been interrupted by a breaking…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the…

— Eavan Boland

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those…

— Lee Gutkind

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer…

— Megan McCafferty

For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while,…

— Donald Ray Pollock

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals…

— Mark Twain

The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan…

— Felix Adler

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure…

— Virgil Suarez

“Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.”

— Paul J. Silvia