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A Writer Is A Spectator, Looking At Everything With A Highly Critical Eye.

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.

I Write A Book At Least Three Times-once To Understand It, The Second Time To Improve The Prose, And A Third To Compel It To Say What It Still Must Say.

Revision Is One Of The Exquisite Pleasures Of Writing.

Life Is A Tragedy Full Of Joy.