Eye Quote by Margaret Haddix

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

— Stephen King

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I…

— David Sedaris

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four…

— Tess Gerritsen

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

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.…

— Pam Houston

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be…

— Colleen McCullough

I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out…

— Eran Creevy

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

— Ravi Subramanian

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

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 calculated that if I wrote five pages a day, which seemed very doable, I would have an 1,800-page first draft when the deadline…

— Michael Showalter