Draft Quotes
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In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
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You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.
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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
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Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!
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It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.
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I draft tweets, like, 20 times.
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I don't think you rule anything out when you go into a draft, especially if you think there's someone there who you think you can go get. Would you be willing to trade or make a move? I don't think we're afraid to do that--last year we did it. And I wouldn't rule something like that out.
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Heart had originally relocated to Vancouver because Mike evaded the draft to protest the Vietnam war. We had to deal with a lot at that time - it was a tough period for the band.
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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.
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We would like to solve everything that we could on our football team in free agency. That way you go into the draft and you're freewheeling.
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If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.
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Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.
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Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.
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With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited, make the unit of the chapters small so that you can finish one a day, at least in the first draft. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft. I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.
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So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well.
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The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
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The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.
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News is only the first rough draft of history.
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When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion line inspired by the outfits my characters wore. I regret that we never did that.
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As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
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It's a track where everyone can go flat easy. It's a track where equipment sometimes takes over for the driving. But that's for speed. The draft is very important here and we have been learning what it takes, so hopefully we will be able to learn from that and win.
