Draft Quotes

289 quotes by 261 authors

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point… — Richard North Patterson
I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and… — Susan Sontag
Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%. — Stephen King
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself… — Donald Murray
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't… — Dorothy Parker
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow. — Martin Amis
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each… — Arundhati Roy
More and more teams are using almost exclusively the draft to build their teams. And that means you have younger players to develop in those… — Ozzie Newsome
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But… — Klaus Kinski
Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do.… — Ed O'Neill
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight. — Stephen Colbert
I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to… — Mike Piazza
The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the… — Ann Coulter
If you draft me, you'll never regret it. — Kwame Brown
The first draft of a story is the writer's clay. — Bruce Coville
I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order. — Henrik Zetterberg
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval… — Douglas Alexander
I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times.… — Kevin Durant
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the… — Gautama Buddha

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