Bad Quote by Jesse Andrews

I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let…

— David Means

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

— Nora Roberts

Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you write your…

— Tomi Adeyemi

When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use a computer…

— Lauren Groff

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline…

— Ted Solotaroff

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations,…

— Walter Mosley

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 novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea,…

— Bernard Malamud

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with.…

— Len Wein

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

— Will Shetterly

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes…

— Michael Chabon