#draft

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#multiple-drafts-model #qualia #experience

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. ↗

— Alan Brien

#been #being #collecting #congenial #debt

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#army #civilian #draft #everyone #life

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

— Chris Baty

#rough-drafts #simile #writing #stress

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#change #country #draft #go #go away

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#absolutely #anyone #book #certainly #contained

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

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

#adam #bra #draft #earth #eve

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day. ↗

— Rita Dove

#according #color #day #drafts #each