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