Drafts Quotes

73 quotes by 66 authors

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
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
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. — John Irving
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. — Naguib Mahfouz
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
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. — Will Self
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I havenâ€™t had trouble with writerâ€™s block. I think itâ€™s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichÃ©d… — Jennifer Egan
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
Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version. — Sri Chinmoy
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
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
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
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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