You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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