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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….

Bernard Malamud

How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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 Done Want Yelling
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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….
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Firsts Ideas
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong

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