When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot. — Andrew Davies 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 think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come… — Kate DiCamillo 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
Saving sweet text messages in your drafts folder...hoping that one day you can send how you feel to that special person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make it to the NBA and be on a team, so whatever team drafts me I'm going to… — RJ Barrett 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
It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with… — Mary Oliver 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 write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
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… — Alycia Debnam-Carey Copy Share Image
I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“What I miss most since computers is the existence of rough drafts. […]. I miss the mistakes, the words scribbled in the… — Jean-Claude Carrière Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
It's a hard league to make it in, and there's some toughness that's needed, and guys gotta be sharp and guys gotta… — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Why are kids like me always being drafted into wars we didn't start?” — G. Willow Wilson 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'd really be happy with any team that drafts me. It means they see something in me. — Ja Morant Copy Share Image
Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Sometimes your best feelings are found in drafts, those are the words which you type but never send — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes… — Alexander Chee 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 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 drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
The thing about our movies is, we write thirty drafts. That's a very detailed script. Which means that if you try to… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image