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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

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.

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

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

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

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

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.

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.