Top Draft Quotes

  • Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose. – Joyce Carol Oates

    Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.– Joyce Carol Oates

  • Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc. – Andromeda Edison

    Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.– Andromeda Edison

  • The first draft of a book-”even a long one-”should take no more than three months, the length of a season. – Stephen King

    The first draft of a book-”even a long one-”should take no more than three months, the length of a season.– Stephen King

  • It’s okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites. – Stewart Stafford

    It’s okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.– Stewart Stafford

  • When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete…you feel as if you could do anything. – Christy Hall

    When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete…you feel as if you could do anything.– Christy Hall

  • The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, ??????, and then start editing. You can be objective post-??????. – Christos Tsiolkas

    The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, ??????, and then start editing. You can be objective post-??????.– Christos Tsiolkas

  • The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to be written! – Heather Robinson

    The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!– Heather Robinson

  • News is only the first rough draft of history. – Alan Barth

    News is only the first rough draft of history.– Alan Barth