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
If you draft me, you'll never regret it.
— Kwame Brown
Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.
— Joe Conason
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
— Dean Koontz
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.
— John Dufresne
Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.
— Kyrie Irving
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
Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.
— John Ciardi
This life isn't bad for a first draft.
— Joan Konner
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
Jenks made a face. He turned my son into a thief and broke my partner's heart. Why should I give him a draft of consideration?
— Kim Harrison
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 first draft of anything is shit.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
— George Wald
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
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
— Stephen Collins
Life is a first draft ... with NO rewrite.
— George Bernard Shaw
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,
The first draft is always shit.
— Ernest Hemingway,
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.
— Jane Stanton Hitchcock
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
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
I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging.
— Darynda Jones
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.
— Tim O'Brien
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
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
Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart
— Lisa Fantino
You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.
— Thomas Lennon
I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
— Leigh Bardugo
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
Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay.
Let it be right where they are.
Let the work of art preserve its life. — Diana Rose Morcilla
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
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
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
— Geoffrey Ward
Thank you for being open to another more workable draft of me. It affected me profoundly.
— Mary-Louise Parker
When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete ... you feel as if you could do anything.
— Christy Hall
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
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.
— Connie Willis
To be a self rewritten from a lost first draft.
— J.J. Abrams
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
I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order.
— Henrik Zetterberg
You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.
— William Monahan
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
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
— Terry Pratchett
The first rough draft of history.
— Ben Bradlee
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
They don't draft you to sit there and stand on the sideline.
— Torrey Smith
Don't stop with your first draft.
— P. J. Plauger
Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.
— Edwin Catmull
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.
— Stephen Colbert
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
— Erin Morgenstern
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.
— Guy Garvey
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
— Jonathan Shapiro
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
— Jonathan Dee
Draft beer, not people.
— Bob Dylan
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
— Chaim Potok
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
Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.
— Ashley Purdy
Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.
— Bob McNair
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
A careful first draft is a failed first draft
— Patricia Hampl
