First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
BERNARD MALAMUDCharity you can give even when you haven’t got.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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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 am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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….
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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