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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Bernard Malamud

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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

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