If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhere to look if you’ve lost your mind?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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