In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUDSomewhere 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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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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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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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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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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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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… 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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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