Writer Quote by Jennifer Ross

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good…

— Rose Tremain

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

The biggest takeaway from a memoir is that you have to play fair. Within the first draft, I was writing very angrily because I…

— Michelle Zauner

It's more like I write multiple first drafts, handwritten. So with my first novel, I wrote whole drafts from different points of view. There…

— Lauren Groff

Whenever I teach writing I tell them to never revise as you go. Finish the first draft. This is my writing advice. I can't…

— Matt de la Pena

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

Writing thats not working for a living.

— Robert Asprin

Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing…

— Steve Martin

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

— Sara Sheridan

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere