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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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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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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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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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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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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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The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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