First Drafts Are For Learning What Your

Teach Yourself To Work In Uncertainty.

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.

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.

You Can't Eat Language But It Eases Thirst.

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.