• I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

    John Dos Passos: I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
    John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”