Careful Quote by Patricia Hampl Download Open image “A careful first draft is a failed first draft” — Patricia Hampl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Careful Failure Firsts
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.” — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives. — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.” — John Dufresne 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 was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo. — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
You've got to be careful against classy fighters, especially counter-punchers because if you go for the finish too early, you can end up getting… — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I just have to deal with it [injuries] if and when problems happen. It's obviously a concern and I've been very careful with my… — Greg James Copy Share Image
Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
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