Imperfect Start Quotes

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

The weekend's here, started it right. Even if I only get part of it right.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

It is the adage of any creative thing; it looks terrible, it is an ugly baby, until the very last second.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.