Top 1200 Rough Drafts Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with it, even 'til this day I'm actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I've been like that it's been pretty darn good to me.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.

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

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

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

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

I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

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.

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

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

I'm not much of an outliner in general. I tend to wing my way through all my drafts, which means writing a series is a very chaotic and panic-inducing experience.

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

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

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

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

I'm a great reviser. I do these reckless drafts just to get the lay of the land.

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

I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.

I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

I'll play for whoever drafts me. I'm just not going to be presumptuous about what they want to do. It's the draft.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

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

During my first eight years at the Revs we drafted really well, but I got very little from the last two drafts that I took part in.

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's a debilitating process, working with the studios. With the length of time it takes for drafts and development deals, your enthusiasm is gone before you're ready to make the film.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have another name for them. We want women who can make a home, and if need be, handle a rifle.

You don't get to be a good screenwriter unless you do 20, 30 drafts: fact.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

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

I find it very, very hard doing what the law on DACA says exactly to do, and you know, the law is rough. I'm not talking about new laws. I'm talking the existing law is very rough. As far as the new order, the new order is going to be very much tailored to the - what I consider to be a very bad decision.

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

I would like to get drafted at all and I will be happy to play for whoever drafts me.

Don't dive into the weeds of mock drafts and rumors, because that's all that they are. They're just rumors.

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.

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

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

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?'

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".

I've always wanted to make it to the NBA and be on a team, so whatever team drafts me I'm going to be happy with.

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

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