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.
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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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