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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

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
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
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
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

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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