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Bernard Malamud

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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
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Pencil
Pencils
Quickly
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Moving
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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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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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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