Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDChildren were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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You see in others who you are.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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