Best Quote by Jennifer Egan

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

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the…

— Judy Blume

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

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's…

— Ramsey Campbell

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

— Jules Feiffer

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

— Mike Rich

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

— Bernard Malamud

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I…

— Diablo Cody

What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against…

— Cornelius Eady

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

— Jennifer Egan

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