Rough Drafts Quotes

I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.

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

It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

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.

There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

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.

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.