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The Writing Life

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By Annie Dillard Quotes On throwing away early work: A painting covers its tracks. Painters work from the ground up.

By Annie Dillard Quotes On throwing away early work: A painting covers its tracks. Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left. The latest version of a literary work begins somewhere in the work’s middle, and hardens toward the end. The earlier version remains lumpishly on the left; the work’s beginning greets the reader with the wrong hand. In those early pages and chapters anyone may find bold leaps to nowhere, read the brave be

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