Revision Is One Of The Exquisite Pleasures

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.

All Men Are Jews, Though Few Men Know It.

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.

Tomorrow The World Is Not The Same As Today, Though God Listens With The Same Ear.

I Sometimes Confuse Myself With The Little I Know.