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I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.
— Kiese Laymon
We write while sleepwalking and revise when awake.
— Marty Rubin
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
— David Steinberg
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
— Barrett Wendell
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
— Frederic Chopin
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
— Bernard Malamud
Compassion," Zeke had said. "The world could use more of it.
— Thomas Grant Bruso
Writing fiction is: Imagination and structure first and foremost - then revision, revision, revision! Then, revision!
— Will Ottinger
A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.
— Howard Mittelmark
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
— Tracy Kidder
What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then he hit me in the balls with a hammer.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Why aren't the thinks I'm thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!?
— Christopher Lehman
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
— Patricia Reilly Giff
Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.
— Buffy Andrews
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
— Will Shetterly
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
— William Faulkner
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler