Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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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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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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