Bernard Malamud Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Revision, Pleasure

  "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.

• Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Teach, Uncertainty

• Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Who You Are

  BERNARD MALAMUD (1979). “DUBLIN'S LIVES”

• The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

  Bernard Malamud

  Moving, Writing, Ideas

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Ideas, Reform

  "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.

• The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Important, About Yourself

• Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Ifs

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

• I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Writing, Three

  Bernard Malamud (1989). “The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction”, p.10, Macmillan

• To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Character, Discipline

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Sitting Down, Down And

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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