How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDTo any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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