Reader, I Am Myself The

I Sometimes Confuse Myself With The Little I Know.

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.

You Write By Sitting Down And Writing. There's No Particular Time Or Place—you Suit Yourself, Your Nature. How One Works, Assuming He's Disciplined, Doesn't Matter.

Overnight Business Could Go Down Enough To Hurt; Yet As A Rule It Slowly Recovered-sometimes It Seemed To Take Forever-went Up, Not High Enough To Be Really Up, Only Not Down.

We're Persecuted In The Most Civilized Languages.