Every second Quote by Sri Chinmoy

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

— Patricia Hampl

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

— Jules Feiffer

“Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this. If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your…

— Jamie Freveletti

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

— Ravi Subramanian

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes…

— Michael Chabon

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

— Jane Smiley

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

— Tama Janowitz

I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the…

— Donald Ray Pollock

It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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

— Anonymous