Quotes Tagged With :drafts

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

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

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

You are the draftsman and craftsman of your own destiny.

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....

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

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

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

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