“I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write,...” — Kimberly Willis Holt Quote

“I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites on each book.”

“My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.”

“My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.”

“Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.”

“Usually with something like 'The 100,' because you're working so much and every day, and they'll change the drafts quite quickly, we'll go through maybe, like, 12 different versions of the same scene over a week. So there is no point in learning it on a Tuesday when on a Thursday it might be completely different.”

“One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work.”