Showing posts with label Bernard Malamud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bernard Malamud. Show all posts

Friday, October 23, 2009

Exquisite Burden

“Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.”
-Bernard Malamud


Had Bernard Malamud called revision one of the "necessary burdens" instead of "exquisite pleasures" of writing, I would think of him like a brother. Instead, he's more the father my mother left before I was born.


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