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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Pencil
Pencils
Quickly
Idea
Moving
Ideas
Writing

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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.
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