Body Quote by Will Self

“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents…

— Will Self

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

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

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

— Guy Garvey

I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let…

— David Means

Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...

— Will Self

I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

— Hallie Ephron

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to…

— Anonymous

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.…

— Pam Houston

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz