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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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... 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.
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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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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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