Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Some 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?
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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