Firsts Quote by Alain de Botton

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

— Alice Walker

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

— Nathan Englander

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written…

— Anne Lamott

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have…

— Peter McWilliams

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your…

— Ray Bradbury

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have…

— Peter McWilliams