Clay Quote by Bruce Coville Download Open image “The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.” — Bruce Coville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clay Firsts Inspirational Stories Writing
I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story, then a period of more or less conscious meditation, then the first draft, and finally the revision, which may be simply ‘pencil work’ as John O’Hara calls it — that is, minor changes in wording — or may lead to… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share 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. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. — Guy Garvey Copy Share Image
The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
“Funny thing about chains," he said. "They're everywhere, once you know how to look for them. I like chains. When Cara laughed at this,… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
“Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch” — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
“Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people - they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them, any more that… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
“...You should make someone a wonderful husband." Even the tips of Jamie's ears were crimson now. But instead of retreating, he clenched his jaw… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV? — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
“Across the gently rolling hills, Beyond high mountain peaks, Along the shores of distant seas, There's something my heart seeks. But there's no peace… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors. — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium. — David Goffin Copy Share Image
Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
