Draft Quotes

289 quotes by 261 authors

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop… — Harold McGee
The first draft of anything is sh*t. — Ernest Hemingway
People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to… — Scott Boras
If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player in… — Marty Hurney
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body — Thomas Hobbes
The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those… — Muhammad Ali
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. — Jonathan Haidt
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one should… — Sheldon Richman
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. — Connie Willis
The first draft of a bookâ€”even a long oneâ€”should take no more than three months, the length of a season. — Stephen King
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a… — Gore Vidal
Iâ€™ve always said, â€˜I have nothing to say, only to add.â€™ And itâ€™s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of… — Gore Vidal
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the… — W. Eugene Smith
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing… — Colleen McCullough
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. — Jane Smiley
I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter. — Jalen Rose
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports. — Roger Goodell

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