Draft Quote by Colm Toibin Download Open image “I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.” — Colm Toibin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Draft Firsts Fountain Fountain pen Fountain pens Pen Pens Type Up Writing
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. — Guy Garvey Copy Share Image
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“Gaiman wrote the first draft in fountain pen, in several five-hundred-page, leather-bound sketchbooks that he purchased in a close-out sale. "I really wanted a… — Hank Wagner Copy Share Image
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“Writing things down with a pen is a lot faster and more therapeutic than trying to type something on a tiny touchscreen keyboard.” — Jodie Beau Copy Share Image
I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“The details of what I told him were with me all the years in the same way as my hands or my arms were… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls.… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A lot of young guys coming up in this league, they're given the spotlight right away, depending on draft stature or whatever the case… — DeSean Jackson Copy Share Image
A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying. — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
That would just mean so much to be to be thought of as the best player in the draft. — Nick Bosa Copy Share Image
I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably. — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
I still wake up thinking about draft choices we should have made that would have impacted the franchise for a long time, but I… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses,… — Alex Smith Copy Share Image
From watching the draft and following the NFL closely, anything can happen in the draft. But to me, it's not where I get drafted… — Saquon Barkley Copy Share Image
Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
We try to talk all the time about a vision when we come up with players. Even when we draft players, what's the vision?… — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
