I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it…

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that…

— Rita Dove

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

— Mary Oliver

“Beautiful words ruin your poetry. A touch of beauty enhances a dish, but you throw a hill of it inton the pot! No, the…

— David Mitchell

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50,…

— James Dickey

“You never know that. I don't know it; Robert Lowell doesn't know it; John Berryman didn't know it; and Shakespeare probably didn't know it.…

— James Dickey

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

— Victor Levin

I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have to be…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and…

— Adam Rapp

I'd really be happy with any team that drafts me. It means they see something in me.

— Ja Morant

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

— Grant Hill

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have…

— John Irving

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

— Jennifer Egan

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…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff