In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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One 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.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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