Draft Quote by Noah Hawley

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

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

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

— Will Shetterly

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

— Guy Garvey

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with.…

— Len Wein

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

— James A. Michener

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

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

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of…

— Terry Pratchett

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought…

— Anne Tyler