Firsts Quote by Pamela Druckerman

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

— Mike Rich

I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on your first…

— Eden Robinson

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

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

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

— Chinua Achebe

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to…

— Sean Connery

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

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the…

— Marie Lu

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

— James A. Michener

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