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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.

Bernard Malamud

One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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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Men Pity Surprise
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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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Book Firsts Ideas
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Confusion Giving Order
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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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.

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