Ifs Quote by Cornelius Eady

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more…

— George Saunders

The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just go crazy.…

— Linda Woolverton

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

— Clifford Geertz

I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let…

— David Means

I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some writers, like…

— Peter Orner

My first drafts are always terrible, and I hate them, but the process for me is all about writing the bad version until it…

— Jesse Andrews

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

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline…

— Ted Solotaroff

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually…

— Peter Wolf

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 a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in…

— Robert Boswell

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