Quote by Shelby Foote Download Open image “I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.” — Shelby Foote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
During my first eight years at the Revs we drafted really well, but I got very little from the last two drafts that I… — Steve Nicol Copy Share Image
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it. — Jonathan Dee 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
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam.… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
