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

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

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.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.