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I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

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The great thing about writing: Stay with it. . . ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

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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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