The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUDNo use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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