The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUDSomewhere 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook 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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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