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.
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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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