If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
BERNARD MALAMUDPolitics isn’t in my nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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 story is about.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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I 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.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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