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Drafts Quotes by Bernard Malamud
- Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge…
- First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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- I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I… — Judy Blume
- By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard… — Steve Earle
- The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that… — Lucy Corin
- First drafts are for learning what your story is about. — Bernard Malamud
- I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on… — 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… — Sue Naegle
- Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever… — Nicholas Sparks
- Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal… — Friedrich Nietzsche