Books Quote by Tama Janowitz

Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you write your…

— Tomi Adeyemi

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea,…

— Bernard Malamud

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

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

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea,…

— Bernard Malamud

“A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version…

— James A. Owen

I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— James A. Michener

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to…

— Bernard Malamud

“The major difference between a relationship and a novel draft is that you hae control over your novel's outcome.”

— Jordan E. Rosenfeld

The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.

— Aprilynne Pike

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the…

— Laurie Foos