Draft Quotes

289 quotes by 261 authors

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I… — Robert A. Heinlein
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them. — John Irving
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to… — Margaret Weis
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is… — Anne Lamott
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? — Annie Dillard
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so… — Chuck Palahniuk
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he… — Maya Angelou
And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher....… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well… — Isabel Allende
When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And… — Diana Gabaldon
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate,… — Ray Bradbury
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting somethingâ€”anythingâ€”down on paper. What Iâ€™ve learned to do… — Anne Lamott
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. — Shannon Hale
The next week she withheld my paycheck until I signed a document (drafted by David) in which I promised not to marry Connor. Ever. I… — Lisa Lutz
They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's… — C.E. Murphy
This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane;… — Jasper Fforde
I believe the first draft of a book â€” even a long one â€” should take no more than three monthsâ€¦Any longer and â€” for… — Stephen King
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those… — Will Self

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