Deadline Quote by Michael Showalter

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

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

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 taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting them. I…

— Nathan Englander

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to…

— Margaret Haddix

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

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a…

— Sefi Atta

“Write every day, as many hours as you can. Don't worry about page count. You'll have to worry about that soon enough, when you…

— Darrell Pitt

I write every first draft - almost every draft, but certainly the first - by hand on blank white pieces of paper, so I…

— Simon Kinberg

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

— Stephen King

Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of…

— Terry Pratchett