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" A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying. "

Patricia Schroeder

" After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. "

Margaret Haddix

" A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices. "

David Macinnis Gill

" A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. "

" Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again. "

Bruce Boxleitner

" By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me. "

Jack Youngblood

" 'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script. "

" Cleveland was the only visit I made. I had a good feeling they were going to draft me, but I was still shocked when they jumped up to the second round. "

" Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management. "

" Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite. "

" Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here. "

Gordon Sinclair

" Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria. "

" Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept. "

" I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business. "

" I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics. "

" I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. "

" 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. "

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

" I draft quickly and then revise, a lot. "

Erin Morgenstern

" If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson. "

" If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay. "

" If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years. "

Andrew Whitworth

" I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. "

" I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year. "

" I had finished the first draft of 'Life As We Knew It' before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world. "

Susan Beth Pfeffer

" I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written. "

" I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance. "

" I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. "

" I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. "

" I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising. "

Donald Ray Pollock

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