Effort Quote by Anne Lamott

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. A friend of mine…

— Anne Lamott

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

— Anne Lamott

Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you…

— Sophy Burnham

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations,…

— Walter Mosley

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

— Guy Garvey

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

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought…

— Anne Tyler

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as…

— Sarah Dessen

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

— Pat Barker

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

“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel like hell…

— Anne Lamott