I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times — once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
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.
'Long Work, Short Life' [from The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud (2001) by EVELYN GROSS AVERY]
Use the link below to read about the life and work of North American novelist BERNARD MALAMUD (1914–1986):
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