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God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power. . . . The more we exercise, the better will be the circulation of the blood.

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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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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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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. . . . 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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We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

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