Top 1200 Rough Drafts Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I've always been a rough kid.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

The first rough draft of history.

When a person attacks, it's rough.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

I had a very rough upbringing.

Cutting edges are always a little rough.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

I'd had a rough childhood.

Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough.

My life is simple and rough.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to see if I have the rhythm right. That's why my first drafts take a really long time.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

When I made '1983,' there were a bunch of tracks that were in the early drafts that didn't make it because they just sounded like tracks for rappers, and that's not really the sound I look for when I produce my own albums.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

One rough patch is not the big picture.

I love a bit of rough and tumble.

I love the sea, and I never mind when it's rough.

Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to at least understand what's being proposed and to voice and to organize opposition before the decision is made.

The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

[News is] a first rough draft of history.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

I had a rough childhood.

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

My dad was very rough with us.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.