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“First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.”

— Anonymous

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're…

— Tom Stoppard

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline…

— Ted Solotaroff

“Whenever I write first drafts, I like to maximize the possibility of f-ups, mistakes, mis-written words, digressions, crazy changes in tone, etc. This is…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.”

— Andrew Barger

“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

“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”

— John Dufresne

Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.' You're really…

— Chris Chibnall

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

— Pat Barker

“It’s important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft.”

— S.J. Scott

One tends to write beyond what's needed

— James Schuyler