Bones Quote by Jesmyn Ward

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

— Nora Roberts

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

— Guy Garvey

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

— Bernard Malamud

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

— Wally Lamb

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly…

— Rachel Kushner

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you…

— John Sayles

“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 been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before…

— Samantha Shannon

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before…

— Philipp Meyer

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,…

— Jesmyn Ward

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison