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Writing Quotes by Bernard Malamud
- The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
- 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…
- Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
- You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
- The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
- Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
- Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
- Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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