“I don’t strike out much. I write on... I do one draft. I do
the editing in my head first. I very seldom change paragraphs and things
around. I’ve heard that it’s very useful for people who do move things about to
have...
There’s a song being played on the “Hits” pop station I’m
forced to listen to when my kids are along for the ride (almost always). It’s called “American
Girl” and it’s sung by Bonnie McKee. The opening lyrics include...
"I have been correcting the proofs of my poems. In the
morning, after hard work, I took a comma out of one sentence…. In the afternoon
I put it back again.” ...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
