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Rough Drafts Quotes

News is only the first rough draft of history.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

Alan Barth
Rough Drafts, News, Firsts
"The New Republic" by Herbert David Croly, volume 108, p.677, 1943.

Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.

Geoffrey Hill
Book, Dumb, Rough Drafts

The first rough draft of history.

Ben Bradlee
Rough Drafts, Firsts, Journalism

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Monique Wittig
Rough Drafts, Language, Rough
Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig (1979). “Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary”, Avon Books

But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.

Patrick Rothfuss
Writing, Plot, Rough Drafts

[News is] a first rough draft of history.

Phil Graham
Rough Drafts, News, Firsts

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

Vladimir Nabokov
Writing, Ambitious, Rough Drafts

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.

Lily King
Mistake, Rough Drafts, Want
Source: www.guernicamag.com

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Jane Smiley
Perfect, Goal, Rough Drafts
Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.220, Anchor

There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

Ari Graynor
Ideas, Pressure, Rough Drafts
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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