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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Bernard Malamud

The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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 Eventually Mystery Real Track
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

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