Draft Quote by Elif Batuman

I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft.…

— Cynthia Ozick

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

— Alice Mattison

“The major difference between a relationship and a novel draft is that you hae control over your novel's outcome.”

— Jordan E. Rosenfeld

“It's my mother's job to answer the question of how I got here; it's my own job to say where I'm going, and all…

— Corwin Ericson

It's rare, in my opinion, that we get to see someone who is in his late thirties, with a wife and children who he…

— Tiya Sircar

There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the extent where…

— Joe Bonamassa

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

— Thomas McGuane

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The generation before me certainly told me that there would come a point when there were fewer parts, telling me to make hay while…

— Nicola Walker

I am a product of the draft.

— James Inhofe

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

That would just mean so much to be to be thought of as the best player in the draft.

— Nick Bosa