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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….

Bernard Malamud

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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 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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Clay Past Recapture Time
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose

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