Rough Draft Quotes

#1. 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.

Daphne Zuniga

#2. 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

#3. The first rough draft of history.

Ben Bradlee

#4. News is only the first rough draft of history.

Alan Barth

#5. 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.

Harlan Coben

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

Jane Smiley

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

Phil Graham

#8. Remember--Adam was only God's rough draft, but Eve was his masterpiece.

Sam Torode

#9. 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.

Louis MacNeice

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

Robert Bloch

#11. I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

Patrick DeWitt

#12. 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.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.

Harold Evans

#14. Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

Marie Colvin

#15. I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.

Barack Obama

#16. Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie..

Geoffrey Hill

#17. Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound and hooking up to the monitor and going, "Isn't my baby beautiful?" "Yeah. I can only see the outline of it, but it looks like it might be."

Matt Bomer

#18. Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

Ethan Suplee

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

Monique Wittig

#20. Journalism is the first rough draft of history

Donald E. Graham

#21. Being asked to read another writer's rough draft is the literary equivalent of being asked to help a friend move a couch to a new place.

Paul Tremblay

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

Chris Baty

#23. I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Rita Ora

#24. While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

Lionel Barber

#25. Clothes hide a multitude of sins.

Charmaine T. Davis

#26. To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#27. My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.

H.G.Wells

#28. Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.

Haruki Murakami

#29. I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

Annette Bening

#30. I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

Robert Stone

#31. There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

Bruce Springsteen

#32. Lots of things are impossible. Doesn't mean they don't happen every day."
"Actually that is what impossible means. You should Google it," I suggested. "Wait, does Google qualify as an impossible thing?

Cecily White

#33. You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

Seymour Papert

#34. It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by being like this - fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is - if anything - ever to bring it back. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#35. If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'

Andrew Lansley