Somewhere 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.
BERNARD MALAMUDLife is a tragedy full of joy.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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