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Drafts Quotes by Walter Mosley
- ... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts,…
- This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without…
More Drafts Quotes
- 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