The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDIn my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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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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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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 work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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