Life Quote by Bernard Malamud Download Open image “Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.” — Bernard Malamud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Writing
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way.… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
“Experiencing life makes you a better writer, and writing enhances your experience of life.” — Kristen Melissa Davis Copy Share Image
I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people. — India Arie Copy Share Image
I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Leo hurried up to bed and hid under the covers. Under the covers he thought his life through. Although he soon fell asleep he could not sleep her out of his mind. He woke, beating his breast. Though he prayed to be rid of her, his prayers went unanswered. Through days of torment he endlessly struggled not to love her;… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea,… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Her face deeply moved him. Why, he could at first not say. It gave him the impression of youth--spring flowers, yet age--a sense of having been used to the bone, wasted; this came from the eyes, which were hauntingly familiar, yet absolutely strange. He had a vivid impression that he had met her before, but try as he might he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. 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, and if at all possible, give… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
