Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

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.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.