Bits Quote by Stephen King

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

— Wentworth Miller

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

— Dean Koontz

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five…

— Terry Pratchett

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

— Tracy Chevalier

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

— Margaret Haddix

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing,…

— Gerard Way

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once…

— Sara Shepard

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

— Chaim Potok

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or…

— Joan Didion