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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.

Bernard Malamud

The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness

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