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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

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
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Live
Writing

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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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You see in others who you are.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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