Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDPolitics isn’t in my nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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