I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.” — James Ellison Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write,… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
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… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write every first draft - almost every draft, but certainly the first - by hand on blank white pieces of paper,… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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