Quotes on Draft

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

Author: Dana Carvey

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

Author: Stephen Collins

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

Author: Ken Follett

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

Author: Shelby Foote

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.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

Author: Margaret Haddix

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

Author: Margaret Haddix

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

Author: Diana Jones

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

Author: Michael Mann

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

Author: Colleen McCullough

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

Author: Colleen McCullough

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

Author: Amos Oz

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

Author: Chaim Potok

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

Author: Ludwig Quidde

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.

Author: Ivan Reitman

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Author: Nora Roberts

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

Author: John Sayles

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

Author: Jesse Ventura

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

Author: George Wald

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Author: H. Wells

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

Author: Wayne White

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Author: Connie Willis