Far Quote by Jennifer Egan

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

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written…

— Anne Lamott

“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

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more…

— George Saunders

Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you…

— Sophy Burnham

“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

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

— Nora Roberts

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

— Will Shetterly

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

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

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

— Clifford Geertz

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to…

— Anne Lamott