Rough Drafts Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be…
— Harlan Coben
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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
— Jane Smiley
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News is only the first rough draft of history.
— Alan Barth
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The first rough draft of history.
— Ben Bradlee
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I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines…
— Paul Rudnick
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Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference…
— Marie Colvin
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Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.
— Robert Bloch
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It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to…
— Ari Graynor
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Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle…
— Geoffrey Hill
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My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist…
— Daphne Zuniga
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But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy.†– Chloe Traeger
— Jill Shalvis
Who Wrote These Rough Drafts Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Rough Drafts Quotes as follows: