You write that first draft really to see how it's going to…

The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.

— Jonathan Dee

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

“Write the draft from your heart!”

— Kathleen Ballantine Watson

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing…

— Isabel Allende

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four…

— Tess Gerritsen

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft…

— Gore Vidal

Does the draft really matter? At the end of the day, at the end of your career, at the end of time, does it…

— Jon Gruden

Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking, and I…

— Edward Albee

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft…

— Alex Flinn

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you…

— William Mapother

“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.”

— James Ellison

I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write…

— Jennifer Egan

Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye…

— Nancy Kress

“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing…

— Anonymous

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out…

— Sandra Cisneros