Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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You see in others who you are.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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