You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDFirst 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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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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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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