About Quote by Jill McCorkle

“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your…

— Ray Bradbury

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

— James A. Michener

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

— Tama Janowitz

“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”

— John Dufresne

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

— Bernard Malamud

Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm…

— R. A. Salvatore

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 my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much…

— Heidi Julavits

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing…

— Anne Lamott

I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of…

— Terry Pratchett

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

— Alice Mattison