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….
BERNARD MALAMUDSome 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?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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?
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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You see in others who you are.
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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’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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