I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut. — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
God created men first because you always need a rough draft before the masterpiece — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
If you're tanking to get a higher draft pick, you really shouldn't be playing hockey. — Connor McDavid Copy Share Image
Men between the ages of 18 and 25 must register for the draft on their 18th birthday. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
I love the draft process. I love the regular season. I love preparing for the games. I just love football. — Tony Khan Copy Share Image
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft… — Myron Rolle Copy Share Image
I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Does the draft really matter? At the end of the day, at the end of your career, at the end of time,… — Jon Gruden Copy Share Image
By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me. — Jack Youngblood Copy Share Image
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's… — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
As I prepared for the 2009 draft, I vividly remember meeting with a prospective agent that told me if I put in… — Jason McCourty Copy Share Image
It's the NFL. There's a draft every year. There are players out there, guys out there working hard. That's why I've got… — Geno Smith Copy Share Image
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
You want to draft a guy that has production and gets the ball in the end zone. — Davante Adams Copy Share Image
You want to be in the first round. That's the dream. That's what you see on draft night. — Patrick Mahomes Copy Share Image
I have always had great respect for those who served. In my time, we had the draft. — Bill Cowher Copy Share Image
I wasn't worried about my draft position. I was just taking it easy come, easy go. — Carey Price Copy Share Image
“(about divorce): Sometimes you have to scrap your first draft and start over.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“was indicated that the Draft Committee would meet within the year to review and, if necessary,” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image