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- Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...
- 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…
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- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood
- No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few… — Lynn Abbey
- Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying… — Mohamed Elmasry
- Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke… — Ted Solotaroff
- When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the… — Michael Chabon
- After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework… — Kent Haruf
- In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver
- It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker