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“Whenever I write first drafts, I like to maximize the possibility of f-ups, mistakes, mis-written words, digressions, crazy changes in tone, etc. This is…

— Jeff VanderMeer

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

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

— Anonymous

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

“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.”

— Sean Platt

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

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.

— T. Davis Bunn

I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I…

— Barack Obama

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

“While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the story features…

— Patricia Hickman

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