Drafts Quotes

73 quotes by 66 authors

The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as… — Jacques Barzun
I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I… — Cynthia Ozick
Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that… — Caridad Svich
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. — Malcolm Muggeridge
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I… — Ron Rash
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this… — Ron Rash
It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't… — Patrick Rothfuss
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and… — Donald Miller
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication.… — Robert B. Parker
... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts,… — Walter Mosley
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
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I… — Billy Collins
There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to… — Ari Graynor
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. — Jennifer Egan
Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained,… — Charles Lapworth
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
Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it… — Sue Naegle
You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the… — Peter Wolf
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against… — Charles Caleb Colton
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be… — Charles Caleb Colton

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