Draft quotes

Discover timeless words of wisdom and inspiration in our Draft category. Dive into a treasure trove of thought-provoking quotes waiting to be polished and perfected, ready to ignite your creativity.

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

Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.

- John Clayton

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

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

- Connie Willis

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

- John Clayton

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.

- Wayne White

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

- John Clayton

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

- H. G. Wells

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

- Nora Roberts

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.

- John Clayton

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

- John Clayton

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

- Ludwig Quidde

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

- John Clayton

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

- John Clayton

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?

- John Clayton

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

- George Wald

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

- Chaim Potok

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

- John Clayton

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

- Diana Wynne Jones

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

- John Clayton