#drafts

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

#drafts #early #heard #his #i

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

#characters #check #down #draft #drafts

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

#discussions #drafts #employment #government #governmental

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