Second Drafts Quotes

#1. Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one!

B.A. Gabrielle

#2. My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version.

Sri Chinmoy

#4. And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts of poems and there were the drafts of my poem, Wild Gratitude, and I saw that I had begun the poem with the title August 13th.

Edward Hirsch

#5. And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

V.S. Naipaul

#6. To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.

John Henry Newman

#7. You want to be loved without risking consequence, so you reach out to get the attention you need while enjoying the luxury of taking no responsibility for those words." I

Penelope Douglas

#8. The Count himself was ready to die, and he would be glad to die here alone, without pretence and mockery, with no troop of expectant relatives about his bed. The world was not what he had thought it at twenty
or even at forty.

Willa Cather

#9. I usually have sex to my stand-up comedy album. Power move.

Jeff Ross

#10. The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.

Christopher Morley

#11. The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once - figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read - is the cause of writer's block.

Karen Karbo

#12. Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

James Meade

#13. My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.

Selena Haskins

#14. Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts - so what?

Richelle E. Goodrich