"Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be."

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It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.

— Eudora Welty