Quotes About Rough Drafts

#1. Maybe it's true that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. But you'd go mad reading all of their rough drafts,

James Browning

#2. Literary Agent: "I meant manuscript wise."
Tina: "Ohh. Um, yes. I've brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuffle, shuffle) You might say something of an experiment.

Christina Engela

#3. 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.

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. 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.

Ari Graynor

#6. Am I crazy Loretta?"
"A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

Donna VanLiere

#7. 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.

Lily King

#8. Whatever the Garden had once been, now it was seething with corruption. Abundant life. It makes me laugh, in retrospect. Mr. Faust, did you know that there's a medical term for abundant life? For cellular life bursting out of control and running wild.

Craig Schaefer

#9. The first rough draft of history.

Ben Bradlee

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

Jane Smiley

#11. It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Anton Seidl

#12. [News is] a first rough draft of history.

Phil Graham

#13. The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

Michael Shermer

#14. I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That's my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.

Jean-Marie Lustiger

#15. As I turned to leave, I looked down. Beside my foot, a sprout of greenery was clawing its way through the pristine nothingness to begin anew. It was later that I realized my haven had sent me a message, and it had shown me that nothing is ever completely lost, unless you cease searching.

J.D. Stroube

#16. A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

Chris Baty

#17. Journalism is the first rough draft of history

Donald E. Graham

#18. You've got to remember what your priorities are. When you're playing, what u do on the field is the most important thing.

Peyton Manning

#19. I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.

Nicole Richie

#20. The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Monique Wittig

#21. The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times. The test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral. Having been through literally hundreds if not thousands of funerals: ... It makes a difference what you believe.

Rick Warren

#22. Some people thinks that I'm the Antichrist, which would be a really good disguise for the Antichrist. You'd never see a pudgy, out-of-shape guy, 5 o'clock in the afternoon, being the Antichrist, would you?

Glenn Beck