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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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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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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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... 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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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Politics isn't in my nature.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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