How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDFirst drafts are for learning what your story is about.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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