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The first rough draft of history. -- Ben Bradlee
[News is] a first rough draft of history. -- Phil Graham
Journalism is the first rough draft of history -- Donald E. Graham
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft. -- Monique Wittig
News is only the first rough draft of history. -- Alan Barth
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. -- Jane Smiley
Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. -- Robert Bloch
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays. -- Daphne Zuniga
Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view. -- Harold Evans
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
Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians. -- Marie Colvin
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
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. -- Harlan Coben
It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years. -- Patrick Rothfuss

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