Draft Quotes

289 quotes by 261 authors

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot. — Erin Morgenstern
Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making… — Gerhard Richter
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward… — Nancy Kress
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without… — Walter Mosley
If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman,… — Barry Sanders
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I… — John Sayles
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty… — John Sayles
I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt… — Dylan McDermott
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. — Chaim Potok
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. — Joe Bob Briggs
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course,… — Peter Carey
We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we… — Roy Clarke
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write… — Jonathan Dee
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and… — Alex Flinn
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living… — Merle Haggard
We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society. — Ray Davies
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that… — Michael Cunningham
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to… — Marilyn Hacker
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or… — Leslie Jamison
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it canâ€™t fit under… — Aimee Bender

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