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.
BERNARD MALAMUDFirst drafts are for learning what your story is about.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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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 past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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