First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
BERNARD MALAMUDNationality isn’t soul.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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….
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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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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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