The Draft Quotes
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People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.
— Alain De Botton
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
— Roger Goodell
'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.
— Kevin Barry
Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.
— Joe Conason
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
— Patrick DeWitt
We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is ... full, to capacity.
— Paul Wernick
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[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
— Maureen Dowd
Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.
— John Ciardi
I oppose registration for the draft ... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.
— Ronald Reagan
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
The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!
— Heather Robinson
The first draft of anything is sh*t.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
— Rebecca Stead
The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
— Christos Tsiolkas
The truth shall set you free...unless of course you live anywhere w/vengeful, powerful people and/or government - John: First Draft
— Grea Alexander
Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.
— Andromeda Edison
Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.
— Richard Flanagan
Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.
— Herb Adderley
This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Journalism is the first rough draft of history
— Donald E. Graham
The first draft is always shit.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.
— Gore Vidal
With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.
— John Dufresne
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.
— Monique Wittig
The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.
— Bruce Coville
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET AMERICANS TO NOTICE ANYTHING IS TO TAX THEM OR DRAFT THEM OR KILL THEM, Owen said.
— John Irving
I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.
— William Friedkin
News is only the first rough draft of history.
— Alan Barth
The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.
— Abdellatif Kechiche
It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.
— Janette Rallison
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.
— Josh Howard
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.
— Aprilynne Pike
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
— Jalal Talabani
I am a product of the draft.
— James Inhofe
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.
— Jonathan Haidt
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
— R. Lee Ermey
Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.
— Robert Bloch
News is the first draft of history.
— Ben Bradlee
The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
— Matt Lauer
I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.
— Louis MacNeice
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
— Katherine Anne Porter
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
— Jonathan Dee
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
— Chaim Potok
After the first draft, I sat back and thought to myself, "where did that come from?" That thought was quickly followed by "what is wrong with you?
— Bentley Little
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
— John Irving
Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.
— Jonathan Stroud
The first rough draft of history.
— Ben Bradlee
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
— Bill Vaughan
We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.
— Ray Davies
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.
— Guy Garvey
I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order.
— Henrik Zetterberg
A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.
— Patricia Schroeder
Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
— Stephen King
It's important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft.
— S.J. Scott
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.
— Edwin Catmull
I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
— Leigh Bardugo
Being asked to read another writer's rough draft is the literary equivalent of being asked to help a friend move a couch to a new place.
— Paul Tremblay
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.
— Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.
— Elliott Colla
To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.
— Jeremy Bonderman
One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there.
— Martha Alderson
I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.
— Brandon Jacobs
You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
— Casey Stengel
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
— Derek Jeter
With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.
— Tim O'Brien
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
— Nicholas Sparks
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
— Dag Hammarskjold
