Novelist Téa Obreht:

“I don’t believe in a wasted draft . . . Even work you consider to be your worst is good for something. Every effort teaches you about your desires and tendencies, or guides you toward some new possibility . . . every line you wrote . . . has value.”

—Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife,  interviewed by Gabriel Packard, “Writers On Writing,” The Writer magazine, May 2016