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Drafts Quotes by Jennifer Egan
- The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
- 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…
More Drafts Quotes
- 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
- 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- Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever… — Nicholas Sparks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
- When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot. — Andrew Davies