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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.

Bernard Malamud

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving 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
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 Men Perseverance
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.

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