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.
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. - Bernard Malamud
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
- Bernard Malamud
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station. - Bernard Malamud
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and… - Bernard Malamud
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and…
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. - Bernard Malamud
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness. - Bernard Malamud
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
Life is a tragedy full of joy. - Bernard Malamud
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. - Bernard Malamud
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. - Bernard Malamud
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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. - Bernard Malamud
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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