Able Quote by Sandra Cisneros

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft…

— Gore Vidal

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

— James A. Michener

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

— Alice Walker

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

— Guy Garvey

“Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty,…

— Angeline Trevena

“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.”

— Will Shetterly

“Write the draft from your heart!”

— Kathleen Ballantine Watson

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

— Wally Lamb

“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”

— John Dufresne

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

— Ernest Hemingway