Compound interest Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

— Grant Hill

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very…

— Dean Koontz

“if you are satisfied with your first draft you are not writing, you are excreting”

— Jennifer Ross

“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your…

— Ray Bradbury

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more…

— George Saunders

“First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.”

— Anonymous

“Some drafts are always more precious than sent emails.”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

— Jules Feiffer

What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against…

— Cornelius Eady

I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some writers, like…

— Peter Orner

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while…

— Robert McKee

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits