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

Bernard Malamud

If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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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Book Firsts Ideas
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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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Confusion Giving Order
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing

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

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