Quotes Tagged With :drafts

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights....

Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this.If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in....

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts.....

Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third....

You are the draftsman and craftsman of your own destiny.

Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless....

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single....

Literary Agent: “I meant manuscript wise.”Tina: “Ohh. Um, yes. I’ve brought a few with me, just....

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked....

It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in....