All men are Jews, though few men know it.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt’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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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