First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe 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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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….
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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