Quotes

“I really don’t believe in a wasted draft.”

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