Bridges Quote by Anonymous

Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling in the…

— Karen Russell

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 write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I used to…

— Louise Erdrich

Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having…

— Art Spiegelman

When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it…

— Karen Russell

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

Yup. They're drafting everybody these days.

— Stanley Shapiro

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

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

— Guy Garvey

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

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

— William Faulkner

The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push…

— Donald Murray