Austria Quote by Peter Morgan

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford.…

— Jesmyn Ward

I write what I write.

— Umberto Eco

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

— Clifford Geertz

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

— Pat Barker

Everything starts with writing.

— Mel Brooks

“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel like hell…

— Anne Lamott

I write what I want to write.

— Jorja Smith

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

— Ravi Subramanian

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

— Bernard Malamud

Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you…

— Sophy Burnham