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.
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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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