How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDNo use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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