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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.'
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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'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 idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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 man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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