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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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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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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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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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It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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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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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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