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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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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 whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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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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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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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 idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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