I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.
— James Dickey
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Well, now, what do you expect? You're His child. Of course you're going to be lonely when you hold yourself from Him.
— Kim Vogel Sawyer
I don't remember the first time I won. I remember the first time I lost, and it sucked. It was go-karts; I was, like, 6 years old.
— Juan Pablo Montoya
I thinkI just don't know. — Lou Reed
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
Got No Where To Go But All Day To Get There
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it. — Andy Griffith
Great management is about character, not technique. — Thomas Teal
I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want todo something good with my life. — Angelina Jolie
I dream of a Digital India where access to Information knows no barriers. — Narendra Modi
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
Don't be afraid to really use your imagination. Let it run wild. It's one of the most powerful tools you've got. — Laird Hamilton
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 think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right. — Christopher Hitchens
A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise. — Chris Baty
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. — John Irving
I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore. — Garrison Keillor
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin
All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this. — M. Kirin
It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. — J. M. W. Turner
First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written. — Anonymous
