Anybody Quote by Jonathan Dee

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

— Joan Konner

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

— James A. Michener

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

— Jonathan Stroud

“The first draft is always shit.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

— Jane Smiley

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

— Ravi Subramanian

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

— Patricia Hampl

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

“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

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Will Shetterly