Skip to content

Draft Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

“Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'” quote by Andrew Sean Greer — Download Open image

“Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'”

Andrew Sean Greer

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Draft Finish Keep Keep going Show

More by Andrew Sean Greer

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the…

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

“Then I traveled. Quite a bit, in fact. You have to stockpile a few beautiful vistas in your memory, Pearlie. In case we're rationed…

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

“To give up a marriage - someone unmarried might imagine it's like giving up a seat in a theater, or sacrificing a trick in bridge for the possibility of better, later. But it is harsher than anyone could realize: a hot invisible fire, burning pieces of hope and fantasy, and charred bits of the past. It had to go, however,…

Andrew Sean Greer

“Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems…

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

“We're too old to think we'll meet again.”

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

“A rosewater smell from the box summoned, instantly, a dictatorial woman with a tight bun, hectoring him with questions. The cut, the buttons, the pockets, the collar. But most of all: the blue. Chosen in haste from a wall of fabrics: not an ordinary blue. Peacock? Lapis? Nothing gets close. Medium but vivid, moderately lustrous, definitely bold. Somewhere between ultramarine…

Andrew Sean Greer

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

My country is nothing if not diverse.

Andrew Sean Greer

Image

Explore all 154 Andrew Sean Greer quotes

More Draft quotes

A lot of young guys coming up in this league, they're given the spotlight right away, depending on draft stature or whatever the case…

Image

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

Patricia Schroeder

Image

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

Ravi Subramanian

Image

That would just mean so much to be to be thought of as the best player in the draft.

Image

I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably.

Image

I still wake up thinking about draft choices we should have made that would have impacted the franchise for a long time, but I…

Image

The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into…

Image

At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses,…

Image

From watching the draft and following the NFL closely, anything can happen in the draft. But to me, it's not where I get drafted…

Image

Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the…

Charles B. Rangel

Image

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

Image

We try to talk all the time about a vision when we come up with players. Even when we draft players, what's the vision?…

Image

Browse all 358 Draft quotes