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People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.
— Alain De Botton
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.
— John Dufresne
This life isn't bad for a first draft.
— Joan Konner
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
— T. Davis Bunn
My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.
— Selena Haskins
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
— Rebecca Stead
The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
— Christos Tsiolkas
The first draft of anything is shit.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Life is a first draft ... with NO rewrite.
— George Bernard Shaw
The first draft is always shit.
— Ernest Hemingway,
One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there.
— Martha Alderson
Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.
— Elliott Colla
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
— Geoffrey Ward
When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete ... you feel as if you could do anything.
— Christy Hall
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging.
— Darynda Jones
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.
— Sean Connery
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.
— Chevy Stevens
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.
— Jonathan Stroud
Don't stop with your first draft.
— P. J. Plauger
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It's important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft.
— S.J. Scott
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
— Terry Pratchett
Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
— Stephen King
You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.
— William Monahan
To be a self rewritten from a lost first draft.
— J.J. Abrams
The first rough draft of history.
— Ben Bradlee
A careful first draft is a failed first draft
— Patricia Hampl
After the first draft, I sat back and thought to myself, "where did that come from?" That thought was quickly followed by "what is wrong with you?
— Bentley Little
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
— Jonathan Dee
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.
— Guy Garvey
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
— Nicholas Sparks
