The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUDFirst drafts are for learning what your story is about.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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 write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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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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