Eight Quote by Daniel Handler

“First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.”

— Anonymous

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

— Clifford Geertz

I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting them. I…

— Nathan Englander

“I do three drafts handwritten and then it's typed up... They are different from each other, they are hopefully improvements in the sense you're…

— Clive Barker

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for…

— Robert B. Parker

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

“Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this. If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your…

— Jamie Freveletti

Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...

— Will Self

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

“Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.”

— Alastair Fowler

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the…

— Marie Lu

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges