The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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 see in others who you are.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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