dave mallach

“The theater critic Kenneth Tynan once said, “A critic is a man who knows the way, but cannot drive a car.”
― Keith McNally, I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir

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A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction – A Practical Guide to Character, Revision, and the Blank Page from 35 Years of Teaching

McCracken, Elizabeth

Citation (Chicago Style): McCracken, Elizabeth. A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction – A Practical Guide to Character, Revision, and the Blank Page from 35 Years of Teaching.

In 1964, Malcolm X said: “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out, much less try and heal the wound. They won’t even admit the knife is there.”