“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.”
“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.”
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
“News is only the first rough draft of history.”
“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”