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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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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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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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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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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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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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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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