The Idea Is To Get The Pencil

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.

I Don't Think You Can Do Anything For Anyone Without Giving Up Something Of Your Own.

Space Plus Whatever You Feel Equals More Whatever You Feel, Marvelous For Happiness, God Save You Otherwise.

If You Don't Hear His Voice So Let Him Hear Yours. When Prayers Go Up Blessings Descend.

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.