Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
BERNARD MALAMUDTo any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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