You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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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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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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