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• I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I… — Judy Blume
• I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first… — James A. Michener
• I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour
• If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts… — Erica Jong
• Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud
• Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites… — Robert McKee
• We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives. — Jules Feiffer
• First drafts are for learning what your story is about. — Bernard Malamud
• You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong
• I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller
• The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best… — Jennifer Egan
• You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts… — Peter Wolf

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