First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
BERNARD MALAMUDI am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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There 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.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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 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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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