The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDA writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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