Ted Solotaroff Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: October 9, 1928 - August 8, 2008
Birthday: October 9
Death: August 8
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.
source: Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”
topic: Writing, Dark, Mind, Overhearing, Dark Room, Punchlines, Revising
