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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

Bernard Malamud

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Cracks Real

You see in others who you are.

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You see in others who you are.
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Who You Are
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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Firsts
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Littles
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Relations
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Inspire Resurrecting
… 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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… 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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Littles Sometime
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Russia
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Yelling
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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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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Window
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Real
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion

If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

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