When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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