One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
BERNARD MALAMUDI sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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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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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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