After Quote by Alice Walker

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

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the…

— Noah Hawley

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

— Alain de Botton

When you are getting drafted you have an idealized situation, but you really don't know how things are going to go down.

— Robin Lopez

There's times where you finish the draft and you think it went well and you get here, and realize, man, these guys need more…

— Sean Payton

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

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

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very…

— Dean Koontz

“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.”

— Will Shetterly

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

— James A. Michener

Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...

— Will Self

“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.”

— Sean Platt