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• Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
• I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to… — Judy Blume
• It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and… — James Dickey
• I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of… — James A. Michener
• By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics… — Steve Earle
• I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year)… — Porochista Khakpour
• If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write… — Erica Jong
• Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works… — Bernard Malamud
• The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and… — Lucy Corin
• I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done — Clifford Geertz
• Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never… — W. Eugene Smith
• Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two… — Colleen McCullough

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