I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.