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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Bernard Malamud

… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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 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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
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
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
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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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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

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