You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
BERNARD MALAMUDWithout heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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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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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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