We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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