The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying, because I feel that everything I do is making the book a little better. Ken Follett, interview with Bookreporter.com, December 6, 2002
Tag: revision
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I don’t put much value in so-called inspiration. The value is in how many times you can redo something. John Irving, National Book Award Interview, June 3, 2005
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More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. John Irving
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My pencils outlast their erasers. Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, Random House, 1966