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Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. — Anne Lamott

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. — Agona Apell

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. — John Battelle

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot. — Andrew Davies

Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version. — Sri Chinmoy

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure. — Victor Levin

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts. — Lucy Calkins

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. — Will Self

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. — Naguib Mahfouz

I told her about my life, I read into her ear the first drafts of my Sunday columns in which, without my saying so, she and she alone was present. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping. — Dean Bakopoulos

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites on each book. — Kimberly Willis Holt

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. — Clifford Geertz

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn

My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood. — Selena Haskins

[News is] a first rough draft of history. — Phil Graham

Journalism is the first rough draft of history — Donald E. Graham

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore. — Garrison Keillor

Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part. — Flannery O'Connor

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?' — Joe Carnahan

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. — John Irving

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise. — Chris Baty

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go. — Edward Hirsch

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one! — B.A. Gabrielle

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day. — Rita Dove

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception. — Bernard Werber

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. — Jennifer Egan

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.
There are no exceptions to this. — M. Kirin

First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written. — Anonymous

First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Some drafts are always more precious than sent emails. — Saravana Kumar Murugan

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. — Jonathan Tropper

All first drafts suck, so get it over already. — Jeff Goins

The first rough draft of history. — Ben Bradlee

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. — Raymond Carver

Wingback chairs had been originally designed to protect their occupants either from drafts or the heat of a fire. — Barbara Delinsky

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. — Mary Oliver

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer. — Rita Dove

Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'. — Faraaz Kazi

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it. — Mary Karr

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless. — Stephen Karam

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery. — Grant Hill

Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts. — Richard Flanagan

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft. — Monique Wittig

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. — Jane Smiley

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age. — Charles Caleb Colton

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it. — Charles Stross

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives. — Jules Feiffer

Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast. — Keith Miller

Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix. — Lorrie Moore