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“Revision can grind a good impulse to dust.”
Billy Collins
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“No amount of learned skills can substitute for the feeling of having a lot to say, of bringing news. Memories, impressions, and emotions from your first 20 years on earth are most writers’ main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. By the age of 40, you have probably mined the purest veins of this precious lode; after that, continued creativity is a matter of sifting the leavings.”
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“A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in first.”