Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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