Book Quote by Kimberly Willis Holt

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

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

“Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this. If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your…

— Jamie Freveletti

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as…

— Sarah Dessen

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the…

— Marie Lu

My first drafts are always terrible, and I hate them, but the process for me is all about writing the bad version until it…

— Jesse Andrews

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens

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

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 time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in…

— Simone de Beauvoir

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story…

— Leslie Jamison

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

— Chaim Potok