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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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.
Bernard Malamud
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
Bernard Malamud
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
Bernard Malamud
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud
Politics isn't in my nature.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
Bernard Malamud
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
Bernard Malamud
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
Bernard Malamud
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
Bernard Malamud
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
Bernard Malamud
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
Bernard Malamud
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
Bernard Malamud
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
Bernard Malamud