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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.

Bernard Malamud

We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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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Book Firsts Ideas
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature

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