Doe Quote by Annie Dillard

I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write…

— Jennifer Egan

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to…

— Sean Connery

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

“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing…

— Anonymous

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

— Nora Roberts

“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

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

— William Faulkner

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

— Mike Rich

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

— Guy Garvey

I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are…

— Susan Sontag

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.

— Lyle Kessler

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

— Sean Platt