Drafts Quotes
73 quotes by 66 authors
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I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to…
— Rita Dove
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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.
— Rita Dove
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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
— John Irving
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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some…
— James Patterson
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I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
— Will Self
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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about…
— Anne Tyler
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts…
— Gore Vidal
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I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.…
— Colm Toibin
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I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them…
— Anne Lamott
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The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-…
— Jonathan Stroud
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October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd…
— Jennifer Egan
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Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the…
— Laini Taylor
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Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of…
— William James
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My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
— Natasha Trethewey
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