The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
BERNARD MALAMUDCompleted, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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