Quote by Ernest Hemingway Download Open image ““The first draft is always shit.”” — Ernest Hemingway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.” — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.” — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“All great stories began as shitty first drafts. There are no exceptions to this.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives. — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
