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The Whole History Of Baseball Has The Quality Of Mythology.

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.

It's One Thing For A Man Not To Know, Not To Have Learned; It's Another Not To Be Able To Live By What One Does Know.

A Writer Has To Surprise Himself To Be Worth Reading.

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