Editors Quote by Dean Koontz

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

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

— Alice Mattison

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 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

Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

— Andrew Sean Greer

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

— James A. Michener

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused.…

— Julia Glass

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

— Tama Janowitz

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

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

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

— Alice Walker

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight