Enough Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story…

— Leslie Jamison

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots…

— Sarah Zettel

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

— Jonathan Stroud

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

— Nora Roberts

The writing for us is the hardest, but also the most important. You want to get to the next part of it, to production,…

— Matt Duffer

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'm a big believer in puking out all your thoughts in a single sitting and getting some version of the work down, because the…

— Mary H.K. Choi

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

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

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

— David Mamet

I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many of the…

— Miranda July

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on…

— Jill McCorkle