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The monsoon came, six monthsof infinite rain. The towns I once knew
were wiped clean,
and everyone said it was God
revising his poem. — Eric Gamalinda
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.
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.
— Gail Carson Levine
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
— Dean Koontz
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
— Joyce Carol Oates
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
— May Sarton
From so much self-revising, I've destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I'm now my thoughts and not I
— Fernando Pessoa
Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.
— Eric G. Wilson
The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer
There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.
— Robert Lane Greene
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
— John Dos Passos
Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time.
— Paul J. Silvia
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.
— Sara Shepard
Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
— Elizabeth McCracken
The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.
— Susan Stewart
I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.
— Glenn Branca
I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.
— Sherman Alexie
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
— Patricia Fuller
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
— Margaret Haddix
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
— Gail Tsukiyama
I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
— Leigh Bardugo
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
— Chaim Potok
