Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
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… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery. — Grant Hill Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Why are kids like me always being drafted into wars we didn't start?” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
“Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged… — Angeline Trevena Copy Share Image
I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm,… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
