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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.

Bernard Malamud

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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories

I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.

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