There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
BERNARD MALAMUDFirst drafts are for learning what your story is about.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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 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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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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