Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDI 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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