Crafts Quote by David Starkey

I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to be in…

— Saschka Unseld

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: 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

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

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

— Henry Petroski

Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself…

— Elizabeth George

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

— Mike Rich

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral…

— Karen Russell

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest…

— Diane Setterfield

“It's unfortunate that we don't have a mentor system anymore. In the Renaissance, artists were apprentices to masters. You learn to do a painting…

— Sue Grafton

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little…

— Francis Ford Coppola