#draft

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#drafts #entirely #going #i #ignore

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#book #constantly #draft #entire #go

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#commission #conference #decided #draft #following

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. ↗

— James Rado

#country #draft #fight #people #protect

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#dad #different #draft #end #guy

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#draft #edit #fiddle #first #going

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

— Nora Roberts

#draft #first #generally #get #i

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#army #average #because #bright #business

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#closely #director #draft #first #go

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand. ↗

— John Irving

#drafts #first #i #preferred #writing