It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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Naguib Mahfouz
These are some quotes by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz Novelist, who lived between December 11, 1911 and August 30, 2006.
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It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be.
