Crafts Quote by Warren Leight

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

— Alain de Botton

The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that…

— George Saunders

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

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

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

— John Irving

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in…

— Robert Boswell

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

People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of…

— Garrison Keillor

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

— Daryl Gregory

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in…

— Jacqueline Woodson