Revising Quotes

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

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

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

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

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

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.