“Why are kids like me always being drafted into wars we didn't start?” — G. Willow Wilson 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
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives. — Jules Feiffer 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
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many… — Gore Vidal 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
Don't dive into the weeds of mock drafts and rumors, because that's all that they are. They're just rumors. — Greg Olsen 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
Sometimes your best feelings are found in drafts, those are the words which you type but never send — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But once your basic story is on paper, you need to think about what it means and enrich your following drafts with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites… — Robert McKee 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
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
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems… — Ron Rash 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
I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the… — Will Leitch Copy Share Image
The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“What are we to do with the knowledge that Tayo was once a woman? That Ceremony held but abandoned considerable investments in… — David L. Moore 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
“I do three drafts handwritten and then it's typed up... They are different from each other, they are hopefully improvements in the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
I would like to get drafted at all and I will be happy to play for whoever drafts me. — Kristaps Porzingis 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'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
