Gordon Lish

From the article:

He wrote the following first line on the board: I don't know what my life would have become if I hadn't seen before lunch the light from the window and the floating motes of dust. Then he picked out three key words: light dust life These, he told us, were the three elements his story would be built on. Every succeeding sentence would refer back to one or more of them, weaving and interweaving until a discovery was made and the story ended.

and...

"Make life hazardous for yourself. Tweak your stability. Your essential statement hereafter should be Bullshit, I'm a liar. I'm not going to lie to myself anymore."

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