The Short Story Packs A Self In

First Drafts Are For Learning What Your Story Is About.

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.

We're Persecuted In The Most Civilized Languages.

... We Are All Terribly Alone No Matter What People Say.

If The Stories Come, You Get Them Written, You're On The Right Track. Eventually Everyone Learns His Or Her Own Best Way. The Real Mystery To Crack Is You.