There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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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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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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