The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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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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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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