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Quotes on finishing the final draft of writing projects.

Writers describe living inside a story until the last page is done, capturing what it feels like to complete a Book after months of work. Others recall missed political deadlines or a sharp-eyed young editor trimming a family project.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.

Quotes by Therese Fowler

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Nov 07, 2020

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

Quotes by Matt Lauer

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Nov 07, 2020

We kept my middle schooler home from school for three days before we turned in our final draft because she was so mean and so brutal at editing out all the cheesy bits. She would roll her eyes and make fun of us, and it was what we needed.

Quotes by Margaret Stohl

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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Nov 07, 2020

In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

Quotes by Karan Mahajan

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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Anne Tyler

Nov 07, 2020

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.

Whether it's a novel, a national Constitution, or a school essay, reaching a final draft means the hardest Editing is finally behind you.

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