Reading Quote by Toni Morrison

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

— Kiese Laymon

The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and…

— George Carlin

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

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working…

— Carol Windley

I see my writing happening more naturally. Just to relax into it and capture all of the good stuff in a calm and connected…

— Justin Nozuka

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

— Kevin Barry

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

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

— Margaret Haddix

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain…

— Axl Rose

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

— Richard Flanagan

I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

— Karin Slaughter