Quotes about Draft

Draft beer, not people. Votes: 3

Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%... Votes: 3

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society. Votes: 3

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%. Votes: 3

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management. Votes: 3

Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR. Votes: 3

I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way. Votes: 3

Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die. Votes: 3

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends. Votes: 3

I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft. Votes: 3

A group called Draft Biden 2016 has started selling bumper stickers that say 'I'm ridin' with Biden.' It's a lot better than the other one that women around the White House have started using - 'I'm hidin' from Biden.' Votes: 3

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. Votes: 2

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. Votes: 2

Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports. Votes: 2

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. Votes: 2

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective. Votes: 2

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying. Votes: 2

I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. Votes: 2

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes. Votes: 2

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done. Votes: 2

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. Votes: 2

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts. Votes: 2

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness. Votes: 2

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays. Votes: 2

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace. Votes: 2

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. Votes: 2

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. Votes: 2

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. Votes: 2

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. Votes: 2

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. Votes: 2

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks. Votes: 2

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. Votes: 2

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it. Votes: 2

Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you're the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play. Votes: 2

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon. Votes: 2

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. Votes: 2

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side. Votes: 2

The first rough draft of history. Votes: 0

Don't stop with your first draft. Votes: 0

Journalism is merely history's first draft. Votes: 0

Journalism is the first draft of history Votes: 0

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history. Votes: 0

News is the first draft of history. Votes: 0

I am a product of the draft. Votes: 0

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot. Votes: 0

If you draft me, you'll never regret it. Votes: 0

This life isn't bad for a first draft. Votes: 0

[News is] a first rough draft of history. Votes: 0

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite. Votes: 0

The first draft of anything is sh*t. Votes: 0

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything. Votes: 0

Journalism is the first rough draft of history Votes: 0

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft. Votes: 0

I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order. Votes: 0

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft. Votes: 0

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft... Votes: 0

A careful first draft is a failed first draft Votes: 0

News is only the first rough draft of history. Votes: 0

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a publishable first draft. Votes: 0

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. Votes: 0

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. Votes: 0

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics. Votes: 0

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree. Votes: 0

A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft. Votes: 0

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. Votes: 0

They don't draft you to sit there and stand on the sideline. Votes: 0

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture. Votes: 0

Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education. Votes: 0

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous. Votes: 0

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010. Votes: 0

The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut. Votes: 0

I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX. Votes: 0

I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft. Votes: 0

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. Votes: 0

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. Votes: 0

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. Votes: 0

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. Votes: 0

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers. Votes: 0

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. Votes: 0

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business. Votes: 0

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. Votes: 0

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind. Votes: 0

The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written! Votes: 0

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath. Votes: 0

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging. Votes: 0

I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week. Votes: 0

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. Votes: 0

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment. Votes: 0

Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU! Votes: 0

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. Votes: 0

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight. Votes: 0

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written. Votes: 0

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. Votes: 0

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. Votes: 0

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. Votes: 0

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow. Votes: 0

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution. Votes: 0

City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script. Votes: 0

The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it. Votes: 0

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body Votes: 0

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor. Votes: 0

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me. Votes: 0

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable. Votes: 0

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. Votes: 0

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness. Votes: 0

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. Votes: 0

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. Votes: 0

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience. Votes: 0

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them. Votes: 0

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever. Votes: 0

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. Votes: 0

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. Votes: 0

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. Votes: 0

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies. Votes: 0

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace. Votes: 0

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can? Votes: 0

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. Votes: 0

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. Votes: 0

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there. Votes: 0

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in. Votes: 0

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports. Votes: 0

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30. Votes: 0

Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy." "“ Chloe Traeger Votes: 0

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck. Votes: 0

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season. Votes: 0

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. Votes: 0

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. Votes: 0

The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. Votes: 0

With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word. Votes: 0

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. Votes: 0

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. Votes: 0

We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity. Votes: 0

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft. Votes: 0

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get. Votes: 0

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. Votes: 0

Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible. Votes: 0

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper. Votes: 0

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen. Votes: 0

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary. Votes: 0

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. Votes: 0

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? Votes: 0

I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft. Votes: 0

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here. Votes: 0

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them. Votes: 0

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people. Votes: 0

I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter. Votes: 0

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation. Votes: 0

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share. Votes: 0

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military. Votes: 0

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. Votes: 0

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think. Votes: 0

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft? Votes: 0

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table. Votes: 0

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay. Votes: 0

I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it. Votes: 0

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. Votes: 0

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance. Votes: 0

I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once. Votes: 0

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. Votes: 0

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly. Votes: 0

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time. Votes: 0

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed. Votes: 0

It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera. Votes: 0

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Votes: 0

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one. Votes: 0

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again. Votes: 0

Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft. Votes: 0

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free. Votes: 0

To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful. Votes: 0

People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value. Votes: 0

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done. Votes: 0

You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability. Votes: 0

Presidential candidate Howard Dean is now being attacked for dodging the draft. I never knew this about the guy - but now I know this guy is presidential material. Votes: 0

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people. Votes: 0

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration. Votes: 0

This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer. Votes: 0

Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft. Votes: 0

When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft. Votes: 0

In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years. Votes: 0

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on. Votes: 0

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. Votes: 0

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age. Votes: 0

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add. Votes: 0

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. Votes: 0

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes. Votes: 0

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut. Votes: 0

Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix. Votes: 0

When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor. Votes: 0

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson. Votes: 0

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.] Votes: 0

If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes. Votes: 0

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers. Votes: 0

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing. Votes: 0

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly." Votes: 0

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

After Ive 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. Votes: 0

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo. Votes: 0

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft. Votes: 0

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well. Votes: 0

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together! Votes: 0

I'll play a character who is getting married to a woman to avoid the draft. Ultimately they fall in love with each other, but at first it's only out of practicality. Votes: 0

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft. Votes: 0

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college. Votes: 0

One of the reasons why I had such a horrible draft is that I hosted an eight-hour pool party before the draft. and so I wasn't quite in my perfect drafting form. Votes: 0

I am hard at work on the second draft Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book. Votes: 0

When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them. Votes: 0

I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution. Votes: 0

I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution. Votes: 0

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form. Votes: 0

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book. Votes: 0

Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything. Votes: 0

I've always said, "˜I have nothing to say, only to add.' And it's with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track. Votes: 0

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor. Votes: 0

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work. Votes: 0

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action. Votes: 0

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed. Votes: 0

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained. Votes: 0

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it. Votes: 0

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things. Votes: 0

During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years. Votes: 0

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball. Votes: 0

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be. Votes: 0

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War. Votes: 0

...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes. Votes: 0

Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials. Votes: 0

My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness. Votes: 0

But it isn't a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns. Votes: 0

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites. Votes: 0

A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft. Votes: 0

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me. Votes: 0

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable. Votes: 0

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I can change seven. Votes: 0

I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing. Votes: 0

I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely. Votes: 0

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. Votes: 0

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things. Votes: 0

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam Votes: 0

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising. Votes: 0

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read. Votes: 0

I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting. Votes: 0

They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it. Votes: 0

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite. Votes: 0

Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there. Votes: 0

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie. Votes: 0