In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUDSome 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?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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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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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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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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