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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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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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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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