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 MALAMUDWithout heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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