When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor. – Judy Blume
I wasn’t involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it. – Michael Chabon
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. – Natasha Trethewey
