Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

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Apparteally Confusion Uncontrolled

For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

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Taught Uselessness

The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.

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Clay

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

You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

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Draft Firsts Learn Stories

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

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Insects

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

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Funn Return

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

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Ears

You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.

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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.

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Down Sitting

We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

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Relations

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

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Sadness

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

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Revision

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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Firsts

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

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