Life is a tragedy full of joy.
BERNARD MALAMUDLife is a tragedy full of joy.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUDTo any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
BERNARD MALAMUDThose who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
BERNARD MALAMUDOne 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.
BERNARD MALAMUDI don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
BERNARD MALAMUDI love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
BERNARD MALAMUDCharity you can give even when you haven’t got.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhat suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
BERNARD MALAMUDWriting is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
BERNARD MALAMUDCompleted, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
BERNARD MALAMUDFirst 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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