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I write a book 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.

Bernard Malamud
Book, Writing, Three
Bernard Malamud (1989). “The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction”, p.10, Macmillan
I write a book 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.