I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.