Draft Quotes

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Ambrose Bierce

Money, Plan, House

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
P. J. O'Rourke

Political, Run, Duty

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

Someone, Passion, Else

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence

Bad, Save, Detail

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts

Strong, Football, Done

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Jean de la Bruyere

Idea, Fine, Opera

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean Koontz

Work, Write, Quick

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
R. Lee Ermey

Respect, Fair, Avoid

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold

God, Vessel, Thirsty

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Jesse Ventura

Against, Might, Military

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

Life, Start, Everyone

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Maya Lin

Father, Side, China

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, May, Country

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
Harlan Coben

Life, Writing, Real

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

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
Len Wein

Between, Write, Difference

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
Bob Schieffer

Time, War, Small

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
Nicholas Sparks

Life, Writing, Moment

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
Ken Follett

Fun, Word, Research

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
Anne Tyler

Remember, Until, Force

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
Jim Lehrer

Notice, Civic, Invitation

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
Erin Morgenstern

Quickly, Revise

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
Bo Jackson

School, Down, College

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

Book, Through, Again

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
George Wald

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.
Robert Griffin III

Play, Team, Wait

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

Work, Thought, Else

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
Roger Goodell

Success, Sports, Nfl

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
Sargent Shriver

Life, Peace, May

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Lynn Abbey

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