Quotes of: Drafting Keyword

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Clifford Geertz

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

Colleen McCullough

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

Colm Toibin

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.

Ehren Kruger

I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.

Grant Hill

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

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Jonathan Shapiro

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.

Jeremy Lin

Lt. Kinderman: [to Chris] A draft in the fall when the house is hot is a magic carpet for germs.

The Exorcist

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

Andrew Davies

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.

Gary Miller

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.

Dylan McDermott

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do--then go ahead and do it with ease. Don't maul, don't suffer, don't groan till the first draft is finished. A play is a pheonix and it dies a thousand deaths. Usually at ...

Notebooks

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

Chris Wedge

I have been your draft for my whole life, let me in or discard me forever.

A moment with God ; Poetry

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

The Little Silkworm

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Naguib Mahfouz

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.

Jim Walsh

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

Nora Roberts

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Natasha Trethewey