Shafts And Drafts Quotes

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

First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't. ~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts. ~ Richard Flanagan

Some drafts are always more precious than sent emails. ~ Saravana Kumar Murugan

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites on each book. ~ Kimberly Willis Holt

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?' ~ Joe Carnahan

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

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ~ Colleen McCullough

I will draw a sight draft on my grandfather, I said. A what? A sight draft. He has to pay or I go to jail. Mr. Cunningham at the bank does it. I live by sight drafts. Can a grandfather jail a patriotic grandson who is dying that Italy may live? Live the American Garibaldi, said Rinaldi. Viva the sight drafts, I said. We must be quiet, said the major. Already we have been asked many times to be quiet ... ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed. ~ Frank Herbert

In essence, Zizek's procedure here is no different in principle from that of Husserl, who wrote and rewrote voluminous drafts and was continually "introducing" the project of transcendental phenomenology. The one thing that has changed is that Zizek is publishing his drafts as he goes. ~ Adam Kotsko

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter. ~ John Irving

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. ~ John Irving

I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers, "I don't think I could write any more drafts." I guess I was sort of hoping they would say, "Well that's okay, this last one is perfect." But instead, they said, "It's funny you should say that. We don't think you can write any more drafts either." ~ Daniel Handler

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

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

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. ~ Judy Blume

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

It's an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease. ~ George Eliot

A prisoner five years between the shafts never hurries. He knows that what comes next can only be worse. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All first drafts suck, so get it over already. ~ Jeff Goins

I do three drafts handwritten and then it's typed up ... They are different from each other, they are hopefully improvements in the sense you're going back over something. The first time you write it, it's the first thing that you can think. The second time you're trying to shape the dialogue, helping the characters. The third time you're doing it because you want the words to sound nice, hopefully making the prose better, making it more fun to read, making the jokes funnier and the scary bits scarier. ~ Clive Barker

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts. ~ Austin O'Malley

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. ~ Ambrose Bierce

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. ~ Powell Clayton

Beg pardon? I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into. ~ David Mitchell

The angles of the upper two shafts in the Great Pyramid of Giza act together as one ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

The first rough draft of history. ~ Ben Bradlee

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore. ~ Garrison Keillor

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception. ~ Bernard Werber

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives. ~ Jules Feiffer

Shafts of delicious sunlight struck down onto the forest floor and overhead you could see a blue sky between the tree tops. ~ C.S. Lewis

All of my rough drafts are going to be shitty, and the final is gonna be fucking Shakespeare ~ Isaiah J Morgan

While the storm was erupting, she stayed, staring at it, watching the shafts of lightning, like someone who could see serious things, far away in the future in these sudden flashes of light. ~ Emile Zola

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin. ~ Dorothy Wordsworth

Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part. ~ Flannery O'Connor

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak. ~ John Battelle

The going sun chucked a vast spread of red behind the ridgeline. A horizon of red light parsed into shafts by standing trees to throw pink in streaks across the valley snow. ~ Daniel Woodrell

In a world full of polished and perfected final drafts, she was the raw and honest scribbled story. ~ Kavya Janani U.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? ~ Felicia Hemans

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. ~ James Dickey

Journalism is the first rough draft of history ~ Donald E. Graham

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial. ~ Pamela Erens

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. ~ Mary Oliver

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them. ~ Rumi

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

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness. ~ Alan Seeger

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it. ~ Mary Karr

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

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard. ~ James Huneker

When he went to college he wrote me letters which I answered within four days. Each letter took at least five drafts before I thought it suitable to send to Cambridge. ~ Laurie Colwin

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery. ~ Grant Hill

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

News is only the first rough draft of history. ~ Alan Barth

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

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones. ~ Evan Davis

Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast. ~ Keith Miller

It was as crude as his drafts always were. But it accomplished the enormous feat of making this shapeless blob of potential material emerge 'out of the everywhere into here. ~ Christopher Isherwood

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

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

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

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless. ~ Stephen Karam

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than at imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence. ~ Bertrand Russell

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts. ~ Lucy Calkins

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it. ~ Charles Stross

Once you've got to the end, and you know what happens, it's your job to make it look like you knew exactly what you were doing all along ~ Neil Gaiman

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive. ~ Alexander Chee

I told her about my life, I read into her ear the first drafts of my Sunday columns in which, without my saying so, she and she alone was present. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. ~ Will Self

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? ~ James Russell Lowell

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

Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins.
It is the smell of War. ~ Neal Stephenson

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping. ~ Dean Bakopoulos

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous.
In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write
really, really shitty first drafts. ~ Anne Lamott

The cave had an immense ceiling peppered with tiny cracks which let in shafts of light whenever the sun broke through the clouds. The cave walls positively sang as water trickled down their smooth faces, and the trickles formed pools on the cave floor so dark that they seemed to have no bottom. ~ Jack Croxall

Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix. ~ Lorrie Moore

So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the moon. He was the author of the fate that could make the mountains move. ~ Andrew Peterson

I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. "Here," I said. "If you get the chance, make like Buffy. ~ Jim Butcher

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure. ~ Victor Levin

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. ~ Agona Apell

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

We must also strive to understand the nature of mobs. A mob has its own constitution. It has its own country. It drafts its own orders and directives, and identifies its own prey. ~ Ravish Kumar

What tortures have men to endure, comparable to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts. ~ Argus Hamilton

I revise and revise and revise. Any editor of mine will tell you how crappy my early drafts are. Revisions are about clarifying and evoking feelings in the reader in the same way they were once evoked in me. ~ Mary Karr

These days, every politician is a laughing-stock, and the laughter which occasionally used to illuminate the dark corners of the political world with dazzling, unexpected shafts of hilarity has become an unthinking reflex on our part, a tired Pavlovian reaction to situations that are too difficult or too depressing to think about clearly. ~ Jonathan Coe

I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one. ~ Ben Crenshaw

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

Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over many years and when I finally got to the last one, it didn't take much time. ~ Pankaj Mishra

The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
And he that stands will die for nought, and home there's no returning.
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair. ~ A.E. Housman

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning ... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist. ~ Peter Wolf

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. ~ Marilyn Hacker

drafts on your skin
words of your neck
i'm spinning in heaven
caressing in hell
we're dancing as if
we're the only ones
here ~ Dominic Riccitello

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

I stood in a clearing among a stand of beech trees, leaves as red as rubies, branches black as jet. It was sunset, and shafts of richly colored sunlight struck through the delicate pillars of the tree trunks, as if through the lancet windows of a cathedral. ~ Kate Forsyth

Then shadows and shapes, shrouded figures, appeared to join him, apparitions, ancient, mythical faces, wise and beautiful, like holy ghosts, shimmering around around him, beside him, beyond him, enveloped by a brume indescribable, shot through with shafts of pink and blue and gold, as though the heavens themselves had opened up and poured out the light into the world. ~ Peter McKinnon

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years. ~ Sefi Atta