The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDRevision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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 don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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