Drafts Quotes

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability… — Judy Blume
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm… — James A. Michener
By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could… — Steve Earle
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
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they… — Erica Jong
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what oneâ€™s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge… — Bernard Malamud
The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than youâ€”there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier… — Lucy Corin
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done — Clifford Geertz
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
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
Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished,… — Robert McKee
Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'. — Faraaz Kazi
We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives. — Jules Feiffer
First drafts are for learning what your story is about. — Bernard Malamud
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong
This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f… — Ray Bradbury
We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total… — Steve Burns

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