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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

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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
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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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
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

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

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