Bernard Malamud Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Ideas, Firsts

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

• Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

  Bernard Malamud

  Life, Book, Inspire

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

• Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Would Be, Matter

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

• 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

• There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Fixers

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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