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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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More quotes by Bernard Malamud
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.
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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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.
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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.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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You see in others who you are.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
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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.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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