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When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer is no, go back and add something.

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

Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.

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.

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

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

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'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

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