Writing Quote by Jennifer Ross Download Open image ““if you are satisfied with your first draft you are not writing, you are excreting”” — Jennifer Ross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.” — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.” — Alastair Fowler Copy Share Image
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. — Guy Garvey Copy Share Image
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.” — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.' — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.” — James Ellison Copy Share Image
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“While at the lake yesterday evening, the following thought filled my heart ... "Loss is like a weed growing in a dry and barren… — Jennifer Ross Copy Share Image
“While at the lake yesterday evening, the following thought filled my heart ... ~ Loss is like a weed growing in a dry and… — Jennifer Ross Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
