Abandon Quote by Francesca Lia Block

“Write and rewrite until you fall in love with what you have created. Your final draft should move you and make you feel something…

— Pol Bard

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

— Mike Rich

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

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

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

— Guy Garvey

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the…

— Marie Lu

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to…

— Sean Connery

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

“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

Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you write your…

— Tomi Adeyemi

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with.…

— Len Wein