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It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re a beginner or a professional, writes Anne Lamott in <\/span>Bird by Bird<\/span><\/i><\/a>, when you first sit down to write something new, \u201cWe all often feel like we are pulling teeth.\u201d <\/span>If you\u2019re struggling with a first draft of your novel or screenplay, you might find encouragement in these quotes from famous writers:<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1] “The first draft of anything is shit.” \u00a0\u2014 Ernest Hemingway<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[2] \u201cGet it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it\u2019s the only way you can do anything really good.\u201d \u2014 William Faulkner<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[3] \u201cI would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them\u2014without a thought about publication -and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.\u201d \u2014 Anne Tyler<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[4] \u201cSometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something \u2014 anything \u2014 as a first draft…Until it exists, writing has not really begun.\u201d \u2014 John McPhee<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[5] \u201cI probably end up tossing out a quarter of what I write in the first draft of a book chapter. Even though I try to be pretty thoughtful about figuring out what I want to say before I write, you still have to see how concepts play on page to decide if they deserve to stay.\u201d \u00a0\u2014 <\/span>Cal Newport<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[6] \u201cMost times, I\u2019ll just sit there, suffer, write shitty sentences, and hope I can make the next draft less putrid.\u201d \u2014 <\/span>Daniel Pink<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[7] \u201cGet it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can.\u201d \u2014 Anne Lamott<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[8] “I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box, so that later, I can build castles.” \u00a0\u2014 Shannon Hale <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[9] “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” \u00a0\u2015Terry Pratchett<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[10] “To become a proper writer, you have to forgive yourself the catastrophe of the first draft.” \u2014Alain de Botton<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[11] \u201cThe first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.\u201d \u2014 Michael Lee<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[12] \u201cFor me, it\u2019s always been a process of trying to convince myself that what I\u2019m doing in a first draft isn\u2019t important. One way you get through the wall is by convincing yourself that it doesn\u2019t matter. No one is ever going to see your first draft. Nobody cares about your first draft. And that\u2019s the thing that you may be agonizing over, but honestly, whatever you\u2019re doing can be fixed\u2026For now, just get the words out. Get the story down however you can get it down, then fix it.\u201d<\/span> \u2014 Neil Gaiman<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[13] \u201cIn the first draft, I write for myself, and always with the door closed. No one ever sees those words.\u201d \u2014 Mary Jaksch<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[14] \u201cI think the trouble starts when you sit down to write and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent \u2014 and when you don\u2019t, panic sets in. The solution is never to sit down and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent.\u201d \u2014 Malcolm Gladwell<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[15] \u201cIf you are willing to do something that might not work, you\u2019re closer to being an artist.\u201d \u2014 Seth Godin<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[16] \u201cClose the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don\u2019t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It\u2019s the one and only thing you have to offer.\u201d \u2014 Barbara Kingsolver<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[17] \u201cWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.\u201d \u2014 Kurt Vonnegut<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[18] \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s good right now, it just needs to exist.\u201d \u2014 Austin Kleon<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[19] \u201cWriting\u2014I can really only speak to writing here\u2014always, always only starts out as shit: an infant of monstrous aspect; bawling, ugly, terrible, and it stays terrible for a long, long time (sometimes forever). Unlike cooking, for example, where largely edible, if raw, ingredients are assembled, cut, heated, and otherwise manipulated into something both digestible and palatable, writing is closer to having to reverse-engineer a meal out of rotten food.\u201d \u2014 \u00a0David Rakoff<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[20] \u201cGood stories are not written. They are rewritten.\u201d \u2014 Phyllis Whitney<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[21] \u201cThe first draft is a skeleton\u2026.just bare bones. The rest of the story comes later with revising.\u201d \u2014 Judy Blume<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[22] \u201cI just give myself permission to suck. I delete about 90 percent of my first drafts\u2026 so it doesn\u2019t really matter much if on a particular day I write beautiful and brilliant prose that will stick in the minds of my readers forever, because there\u2019s a 90 percent chance I\u2019m just gonna delete whatever I write anyway. I find this hugely liberating.\u201d \u2014 John Green<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[23] \u201cI believe the first draft of a book \u2014 even a long one \u2014 should take no more than three months\u2026 Any longer and \u2014 for me, at least \u2014 the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel.\u201d \u2014 Stephen King<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[24] \u201cThe faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling and tiger-trapping.\u201d \u2014 Ray Bradbury<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[25] \u201cEvery first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist. It’s perfect in its existence. The only way it could be imperfect would be to NOT exist.\u201d \u2015 Jane Smiley<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[26] \u201cWriting the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It\u2019s one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.\u201d \u2014 Nicholas Sparks<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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