We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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You see in others who you are.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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