Drafts Quote by Angeline Trevena

“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”

— John Dufresne

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

— James Ellison

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third…

— Terry Pratchett

“Write the draft from your heart!”

— Kathleen Ballantine Watson

It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Living my fourth draft. Revising regularly. --Jeffery Cufaude”

— SMITH Magazine

“if you are satisfied with your first draft you are not writing, you are excreting”

— Jennifer Ross

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

— Sean Platt

“Your job during or just after the first draft is to decide what something or somethings yours is about. Your job in the second…

— Stephen King

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

— Mike Rich

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

— Will Shetterly