Actors Quote by Robert McKee

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do,…

— Ethan Suplee

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very…

— Dean Koontz

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

— Tama Janowitz

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as…

— Sarah Dessen

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations,…

— Walter Mosley

“First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.”

— Anonymous

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic.…

— Meg Wolitzer

To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very…

— J. Michael Straczynski