Quote

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Bernard Malamud

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Drafts
Learning
Story
Stories
Firsts
First

More quotes by Bernard Malamud

Image
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
Bernard Malamud
Image
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.
Bernard Malamud
Image
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
Bernard Malamud
Image
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 exquisite mystical experience.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
Image
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
Bernard Malamud
Image
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Politics isn't in my nature.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
Bernard Malamud
Image
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
Bernard Malamud
Image
I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
Bernard Malamud
Image
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud
Image
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
Bernard Malamud
Image
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
Image
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
Bernard Malamud
Image
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
Bernard Malamud
Image
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
Bernard Malamud
Image
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
Bernard Malamud