Bad habit Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

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

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

— Guy Garvey

“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents…

— Will Self

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

— Will Self

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I…

— David Sedaris

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

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes…

— Michael Chabon

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four…

— Tess Gerritsen

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

— Ravi Subramanian

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

— Clifford Geertz

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

— Will Shetterly