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.
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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.
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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