The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDA man had to learn, it was his nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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You see in others who you are.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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 don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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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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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