“if you are satisfied with your first draft you are not writing, you are excreting”
“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.”
“No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!”
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.”
“(about divorce): Sometimes you have to scrap your first draft and start over.”
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”