Dirty work Quote by Adam M. Grant

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got…

— Lennon Parham

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline…

— Ted Solotaroff

Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have…

— William Zinsser

I don't like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft - that's too much like work. There's not much inspiration about it,…

— Scott Turow

“Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right…

— Andromeda Edison

The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that…

— George Saunders

“First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.”

— Anonymous

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to…

— Bernard Malamud

“There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story, then a period of…

— Malcolm Cowley

“Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of…

— Pamela Erens

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.”

— Scott William Carter