Writing Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“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

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

— Anonymous

“Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of…

— Pamela Erens

“I do three drafts handwritten and then it's typed up... They are different from each other, they are hopefully improvements in the sense you're…

— Clive Barker

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

— Jennifer Egan

“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.”

— Sean Platt

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

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic.…

— Meg Wolitzer

“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 day is a writing day. I get to my desk between 8 and 8:30 in the morning and then work through until 6pm,…

— Clive Barker

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

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee