The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I 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.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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