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

— Clifford Geertz

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

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

— Alice Walker

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very…

— Dean Koontz

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

— Guy Garvey

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing…

— Isabel Allende

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

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

— Will Self

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to…

— Margaret Haddix