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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

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

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

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

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.

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.

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.

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

Only in your imagination can you revise.