No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUDNationality isn’t soul.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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 fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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… 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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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