Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Popular Topics
Heart, Dream, Inspiration, Path Of Love, Bible, Stories, Book, Football, Journey, Character, Pleasures Of Life, Peace And Love, Motor, Angry, Adventure, Funny, Snows, Scholar, Wonder, Knowledge, Air, Night, Fitness, Living My Life, Beauty, Justice, Humbly, Math, Loves, America, Body, Name, Disco, Mother'S Day, Hip Hop, Life, Fly, Confidence, Secret, Perfect Love, Identity, Alien, Success, Ocean, Technical, Girl, Children, Inspiring, Things In Life, Feelings
Bernard Malamud

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Teach, Uncertainty, Work, Writing
Same Author Quotes

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.

Invent, Painted, People, Stories, Style

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.

Book, Draft, Guts, Ideas, Learning, Needs

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Civilized, Language, Languages, Persecuted

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Alaska, Everything, Eye, Highly, Looking, Spectators

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

Bury, Feels, Hope, Hurt
Similar Quotes