"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."
- Bernard Malamud, “Long Work, Short Life,” quoted in The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud, by Evelyn Gross Avery, SUNY Press, 2001 (via thelondonmag)

(via writeworld)


212 notes
  1. cherlux reblogged this from its-a-writer-thing
  2. haikuess reblogged this from cosmiccreationist
  3. cosmiccreationist reblogged this from its-a-writer-thing
  4. seelarrawrite reblogged this from its-a-writer-thing
  5. jester4554 reblogged this from its-a-writer-thing
  6. mycatisgettingfat reblogged this from its-a-writer-thing
  7. azagora reblogged this from its-a-writer-thing
  8. chronicwriter reblogged this from its-a-writer-thing
  9. cherrysan96 reblogged this from its-a-writer-thing
  10. its-a-writer-thing reblogged this from losingtothemuse
  11. nuhlvoid reblogged this from hellingly
  12. hellingly reblogged this from writeworld
  13. astray-thought reblogged this from sunscraps
  14. sunscraps reblogged this from writeworld
  15. rose-edevane reblogged this from writeworld
  16. arcaeynn reblogged this from writeworld
  17. justnamemewhatever reblogged this from the-barn-rat
  18. the-barn-rat reblogged this from queenoakenshield
  19. queenoakenshield reblogged this from dederants
  20. ishtarclan reblogged this from writeworld
  21. broughtbackcat reblogged this from sgtfledge
  22. sgtfledge reblogged this from writeworld
  23. i-llbeholmesifyou-llbewatson reblogged this from lunarblue21
  24. lunarblue21 reblogged this from grim-revolution
  25. grim-revolution reblogged this from writeworld
  26. madtraveler reblogged this from qthewetsprocket
  27. theautomatedsassmachine reblogged this from writeworld
  28. chrismarieee reblogged this from writeworld
  29. oath-to-chaos reblogged this from writeworld
  30. distant-glory reblogged this from a-little-harmed-shinra
  31. a-little-harmed-shinra reblogged this from writeworld