First Draft Quotes

91 quotes by 83 authors

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a… — Hannah Kent
There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give… — Philip M. Parker
The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the… — Jill McCorkle
I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week. — George Stephen
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that… — John Barton
Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started… — Bruce Boxleitner
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred… — Rene Cassin
I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or… — Jill McCorkle
My first draft for my song — Maria
Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but… — Ethan Suplee
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft,… — George Stephen

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