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Politics isn't in my nature.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Politics
Nature

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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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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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 are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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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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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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