Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 'The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe' who ...

'The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.'