I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer. -John Dalton

 

I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.


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I think (banks) are doing better today than they were yesterday, and clearly they need to be doing better tomorrow.

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The people need to know why it has taken so long to try this case.

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I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

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I guess next to Meals on Wheels, it's the most important service we can provide our seniors.

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Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the craft and form of a novel.

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