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- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
- 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
- It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try… — James Dickey
- I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first… — James A. Michener
- By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard… — Steve Earle
- I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour
- If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts… — Erica Jong
- Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud
- 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
- I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done — Clifford Geertz
- Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed… — W. Eugene Smith
- Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which… — Colleen McCullough