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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
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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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.
Bernard Malamud
One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
Bernard Malamud
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
Bernard Malamud
Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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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.
Bernard Malamud
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
Bernard Malamud
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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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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Politics isn't in my nature.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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.
Bernard Malamud
You see in others who you are.
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