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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.

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Metaphor Sometimes Two
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Character Discipline Writing
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Firsts Ideas
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Who You Are Writing
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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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Long Men Perseverance
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space

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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