Cutting Quote by Wally Lamb

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then…

— Judy Blume

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

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

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

— Edward Hirsch

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

— Erin Morgenstern

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little…

— Francis Ford Coppola

So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out a draft…

— Edward Hirsch

“The key to revising is to let the writing get 'cold' between revisions; a time lapse between readings enables you to read the draft…

— Claire B. May and Gordon S. May

My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing…

— David Biespiel

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea,…

— Bernard Malamud

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task…

— Pearl S. Buck

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

— William Strunk, Jr