Authors Quote by Libba Bray

“Your job during or just after the first draft is to decide what something or somethings yours is about. Your job in the second…

— Stephen King

“First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.”

— Anonymous

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

— Will Shetterly

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

— John Dufresne

“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.”

— Sean Platt

“A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version…

— James A. Owen

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

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

— Guy Garvey

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the…

— Noah Hawley

“Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.”

— Alastair Fowler

“if you are satisfied with your first draft you are not writing, you are excreting”

— Jennifer Ross

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

— Tama Janowitz