Draft Quotes

“But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“I guess it was hard for him to look at the logic behind the draft lotteries, because that same logic had taken away his father. And, anyway, what’s so logical about the day you were born deciding when you might die? That’s just a cruel joke, as I see it.”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

“Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life; what melody will you compose today?”
― Ken Poirot

“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes is one individual to say the word "No". Be it a man refusing to register for the draft, or be it a gun owner refusing to register his weapons in Connecticut, it is the same: defiance in the face of arbitrary authority.”
― Mike Klepper

“When a draft looks terrible, I don’t try to convince myself that it’s actually good or even that someday it will be, only that it’s my job to work on it whether it’s good or not.”
― Alice Mattison

“I have been your draft for my whole life, let me in or discard me forever.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“Holland surrendered to the Nazis. Belgium surrendered to the Nazis. The Germans marched into Paris. None of these catastrophes managed to shake the general feeling that war in Europe was not in Martin's business. A peacetime draft got the town's attention.”
― Michelle Slatalla, The Town on Beaver Creek: The Story of a Lost Kentucky Community

“It's too bad the military draft has an upper age limit. Imagine the beautiful society we would have if WWIII were fought exclusively by Boomers.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“I tried to evade it for a long time, but God finds ways of dealing with draft dodgers.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity

“An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.”
― Michael J. Kannengieser, The Daddy Rock

“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before his own preinduction physical prompted an angry outburstas an orderly took a stab at his arm to draw blood. Tony roared, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" and was led into the presence of a psychiatrist with whom he engaged in a protracted discussion of the merits of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting, all the while naked. Tony got his 4F classification, presumably on grounds of schizophrenia, and went on to counsel others liable to military service, using the same approach.”
― Peter Stafford

“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before his own preinduction physical prompted an angry outburstas an orderly took a stab at his arm to draw blood. Tony roared, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" and was led into the presence of a psychiatrist with whom he engaged in a protracted discussion of the merits of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting, all the while naked. Tony got his 4F classification, presumably on grounds of schizophrenia, and went on to counsel others liable to military service, using the same approach.”
― Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia

“Rule NO 3 [of the Fictional Basketball Player Draft]: Rick Fox isn't allowed to participate in any capacity. There's no real reason for this rule other than pettiness. In all actuality, his character from "OZ", a superstar-NBA-player-turned-felon named Jackson Vahue, would've probably gone very high in the draft. It's just that I don't like Rick Fox, is all. So he ain't invited.”
― Shea Serrano, Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated

“So in a six-minute stretch we see display fearlessness, tenacity, intelligence, savvy, a firm allegiance to team, assertiveness, toughness, and a willingness to obliterate a man in front of the woman that man's supposed to marry. Jim Halpert [The Office] is a winner.”
― Shea Serrano, Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated

“This is the perfect place for you, Henry. With the right support you could become the next Aparicio. Personally, I think everyone involved—you, me, the front office—should do everything possible to make sure you wind up wearing a St. Louis Cardinals cap.”

Henry reaches up and touched his brim. “I’m wearing one right now.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“I told them I failed my draft physical. My dad, who often dismissively uttered the words "I can't wait 'til the army gets ahold of you," sat at the kitchen table, flicked the ash off of his cigarette, took a puff, slowly let the smoke escape from his lips and mumbled, "That's good.”
― Bruce Springsteen

“A meticulous outline makes a magnificent book.”
― Billy-Dean Gonzalez

“…statistics experts later proved that the first [1969 nationally televised Vietnam Draft] lottery had a bias in favor of January and February birthdays, whose pellets had been put in the drum first and ended up at the bottom.”
― Lawrence M. Baskir, Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation